Moonshine and Murder (A Sweetwater Springs Southern Mystery Book 4) by S.C. Merritt

Author:S.C. Merritt [Merritt, S.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah Merritt
Published: 2020-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

The server had just returned to the table with my card receipt when my cell phone buzzed in my pocket. I didn’t recognize the number, so I sent it to voicemail and picked up my purse. I waved to Macy on my way out and checked for a voicemail after I got outside on the sidewalk. It was Archie asking me to call him back. “Hi, Archie. Is everything alright?”

“Nothing’s wrong. I was just sitting here thinking about the fact that what we discovered today might help your brother and your boyfriend figure out how that boy was killed, but we still don’t know who killed him. And we still don’t know who’s been in the house at night and how they’re getting in.”

“That’s true, Archie, but it’s a start.”

“I was also thinking that if there’s one secret passage, maybe there’s other secrets we don’t know about.”

“What do you mean?”

“Like maybe an entrance to the house that’s hidden somewhere that someone could use to get in and not be seen by the cameras. I thought you might want to come back out here tonight and walk my rounds with me. Maybe we can find where they’re gettin’ in.”

It took me all of two seconds to answer. “You know, Archie, you may be on to something. I’ll be there in twenty minutes.”

I ended the call and sent Macy a text to let her know that if I wasn’t home when she got off work, not to worry. I’d be home a little later. I didn’t tell her anything else, because she would worry herself sick until I got home.

Evidently, Archie had notified the gate guard that I would be coming. He waved me on through without so much as looking up. Archie was waiting on the front stoop of the cottage and met me at the car as soon as I got out. I clicked on the flashlight I had pulled out of the emergency kit in the car, a Christmas gift from Dave a few years back. He was working late more often, and he wanted me to be prepared in case I was ever stranded. He also made me take a conceal carry course and bought me a little handgun, but I could never remember to take it with me anywhere. “Fat lot of good it does in that bedside drawer,” I could hear him say.

“Let’s check the front entrance and windows first.” Archie led the way across the front lawn and up the steps onto the porch. Trying the knobs and rattling the doors, we moved on to windows. He methodically moved around the perimeter of the house, trying every window to make sure it was locked tight.

“You do this every night?”

“For the last forty years. Only nights I missed was when my missus passed away. I never left her side for those last two days.”

“I’m sorry. When was that, Archie?”

“She left me in 2000. Coming up on twenty years. Seems like yesterday.”

“I know what you mean. My husband passed away two years ago.

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