Murder Is the Deal of the Day: A Gil & Claire Hunt Mystery by Robert J. Randisi & Christine Matthews

Author:Robert J. Randisi & Christine Matthews [Randisi, Robert J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781641194143
Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
Published: 2018-10-02T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

“You’re going to pee in your bathrobe?”

Exasperated, Claire called out to Gil, who was in the living room, “No, I said I’m going to be in the bathroom. ”

Gil had no problem interpreting Claire’s body language when she had walked through the front door, passed him, and walked down the hall toward their bedroom. She was definitely angry. And his strong sense of survival told him to sit tight until his wife was ready to talk.

When she finally did come out, she sat down on the sofa with Gil and glared straight ahead.

“Well?” he asked after a few minutes.

She looked at him incredulously and said, “You know what that bitch did? She kept the photo and Buxton’s information after acting like none of it was important.”

“She didn’t want to trade information?”

“Trade? That would involve cooperating. No. She threatened me—well, us—said we could go to jail if we interfered with her police investigation.”

Gil leaned back into the cushions. “Didn’t she appreciate anything we’ve done?”

“They knew most of it already. She said that all three women were in Gamblers Anonymous.”

“Had they talked to the GA people at their meeting place?”

Claire reached for a handful of popcorn from a bowl Gil had been eating from. “I don’t know.”

“Did they already know about Buxton?”

She chewed angrily. “I don’t know.”

“Did they know about the power shopping?”

“Gil . . . darling . . . I ... don’t . . . know.” She looked at him. “Why don’t you call your good friend Holliday and ask him? After all, you two have bonded.”

“Well, I just might do that, but not right now. For all we know, Longfellow may have had time to turn him against us, too.”

“And you know what makes me even madder?”

“What?”

“She made remarks about home shopping while she was wearing a pair of our shoes! The woman shops with the Mall show.”

“That explains how she recognized you on the tapes left in the murdered women’s apartments.”

“Gil,” Claire said, “she kept me waiting for half an hour and then had the nerve to point her fingers at me like I was a bad little child she was trying to potty train.”

“Well,” he said with a sigh, “I guess that wasn’t a very good idea. I’m sorry I made you go.”

Claire couldn’t help but laugh. “Aw, sweetheart, it’s so cute that you think you could make me do anything. I hate to spoil your macho illusions, but it was my idea, too. I just didn’t figure on meeting up with such a bullheaded human being.”

“You, uh, didn’t tell her about the letter and photo Mary Dunn sent you, did you?”

“God no! You think I want her believing I lied right from the beginning and actually recognized a murder victim when they first showed me her picture?”

“You’re a smart lady.”

She dropped a few kernels of popcorn back into the bowl and turned to face him with her body. The anger was starting to drain away and be replaced by—what—amazement— puzzlement?

“Do you honestly think she suspects me of killing those women? I never took it seriously until she called me a suspect.

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