Mudflaps and Murder by Tegan Maher

Author:Tegan Maher [Maher, Tegan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tegan Maher
Published: 2020-01-28T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

There were only a handful of customers at Bobbie Sue’s when I got there, and I was glad because I wanted to talk to her without the distractions. Louise, another good friend of mine I’d met when her dad was murdered, was working.

“Hey, Noelle! You hungry, or just visiting?” she said, her arms full of dirty dishes. She had a stain on the front of her red t-shirt, and dark curls had escaped her ponytail to fall in wisps around her face.

“Starving, and I miss you guys. So both. I’m guessing you guys have been busy?”

“Slammed. Is Hunter coming in?” she called over her shoulder.

I shook my head. “He’s stuck at the office, running down alibis and doing some background checks. I’m gonna take him a sandwich when I leave, though.”

After I poured myself a glass of tea, I followed her to the back. Bobbie Sue was making slaw while her husband, Earl, was cutting up brisket. The two of them were a study in opposites. Whereas she was slight but had the aura of a stick of dynamite, he was huge, with arms so big I doubt I could have wrapped my hands around them. Though he looked like a grizzly, he had the temperament of a cub, at least until you made him mad. It took a lot, but once he was pushed that far, all bets were off. Thankfully, his temper had never been directed at me. He grinned at me.

“Long time, no see, girlie. Where ya been? I hear Jackson Prescott up and got himself kilt last night. Y’all know who did it yet?”

I shook my head. “Nope, and the ones at the top of my list all have alibis.”

“Surely there’s gotta be someone who doesn’t,” Bobbie Sue said, wiping the side of her face on her sleeve. The blue bandanna she always wore over her hair slipped a little, revealing hair the same color as mine.

I bit my lip. “Yeah, about that ... there is, but you’re not gonna like it. I know I don’t.”

Her sharp brown eyes shot to me. “Then spit it out. It can’t be that bad.”

“That depends on what you call bad,” Sarah said from behind me. I hadn’t figured she’d be working since she was supposed to be at the Country Club.

She smiled at me. “I figured since the races were canceled, I might as well make a little money.” She pulled in a deep breath and her smile slipped. “You know, since I may need money for an attorney before too long.”

Sarah’d worked at the restaurant even longer than I had, and though Bobbie Sue hadn’t helped raise Sarah like she had me, she still loved her like her own. For years, Bobbie Sue and Earl had tried to have kids, but somehow along the way, she’d managed to adopt a few as her own. Sarah was one of them. I gave her the rundown of what had happened the night before.

Bobbie Sue scowled. “That’s just bull, and you know it.

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