Mrs. Fix It Mysteries: The Complete 15-Books Cozy Mystery Series by Knudson Belle

Author:Knudson, Belle [Knudson, Belle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: cThriller
Amazon: B01JKX2YN8
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2016-08-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

The threat of panicking was all too real. Kate wanted to peel out of there and never look back. She didn’t know Donna Kramer, but had a bad feeling about the woman’s capabilities. If Kate stuck around to talk her way out of this, the danger of finding out those capabilities firsthand would be inescapable.

Kate began backing out, acting as calmly as she could, but Donna stepped behind her truck, forcing her to slam on the brakes.

“Excuse me, Flaherty,” she said in a demanding voice. “This is private property. What are you doing here?”

Cracking the window so she wouldn’t have to shout, Kate watched Donna nearing her. “I’m supposed to be on Pennsylvania Avenue,” she lied. “For a fix-it job. Got the address wrong. Sorry!”

Donna looked put off, but dropped her grievance and glared at Kate as she resumed her careful U-turn out of the driveway.

As she drove down the road, she cued up Scott’s number in her cell phone and sent the call through. After three rings, his outgoing voice-mail message came through and she groaned. As soon as she heard the beep, she rushed through her message, telling him to drop everything and meet her at the Langleys’ house.

When she got to the house, Scott’s truck was nowhere in sight. Neither was Amelia’s Cadillac.

Just as she was about to climb out of her truck, she felt her cell phone vibrating in her overalls. When she saw the caller ID, she answered it immediately.

“Where are you?” she asked urgently.

“I got your message. Amelia’s not at the house.”

“Fine, at the hospital? I’ll meet you there. There’s no time to explain.”

“Just hang on a second, Kate.”

“This is important!”

“So is this. I arrested Amelia.”

Taken aback, she asked, “For drugs?”

“What? Drugs? No. Why would you think that?”

“That’s why I want to meet you. What did you arrest Amelia for?”

“You know the partial print we got from the murder weapon? It belonged to Amelia.”

“She’s in jail?”

“She is.”

“You really think she did it?”

Scott sighed into the phone. “I had my doubts, but forensics doesn’t lie.”

“I’m on my way.”

“Why would you think Amelia was arrested for drugs?”

“Trust me, you’re going to want to hear this in person.”

“Fine,” he said. “Come in through the back.”

“Why?”

“There’s a wall of reporters at the front door. Leading the charge is Eric Demblowski. I’m telling you, he’s hungry for blood and anyone passing in and out is going to wind up in one of his outlandish news stories.”

“Got it. See you soon.”

Following Scott’s advice for when she reached the municipal building, she overshot it then turned up a side street, working her way around to the alley behind the precinct where a few parking spaces were vacant, mainly used for freight deliveries.

She parked and hopped out, and soon she was working her way through the bowels of the building, ascending the back stairwell until she reached the homicide floor of the police department.

Police officers rushed through the station, each seeming pressed for time and all the more irritable because of it.

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