Murder Mile High by Lora Roberts

Author:Lora Roberts [Roberts, Lora]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery
Publisher: Belgrave House
Published: 1996-05-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

I wanted to talk to Kyle again, to see if he’d known anything about Tony’s dealings with my mom and dad. Having them drawn into the murkiness surrounding his death was too scary. Scariest of all, I could see my dad shooting Tony. I just couldn’t see him doing it the way it had happened, in that execution style that Drake had recognized immediately.

After dusting, I put off the vacuuming until Mom would be awake. There wasn’t much besides eggs, lunch meat, and Molly’s soup in the refrigerator. Dad was watching TV, and waved me away impatiently when I asked what he’d like for dinner. Hoping I’d remember the route to the market, I drove off to forage.

I stopped at the post office to mail the tape and transcript, and found my way to the King Sooper. Despite its name, the market wasn’t too impressive next to the big, expansive food emporiums of California, where every kind of fresh produce gleams in beautifully stacked pyramids—or at least it can seem that way. The lettuce in Colorado wasn't bad, but the tomatoes were pale and firm, like some new species of apple. Between Dad’s need to avoid saturated fat and Mom’s invalid stomach, there wasn’t much leeway. I got a chicken and some veggies, yogurt and oatmeal and more bread, some gelatin and fruit cocktail to complete the time-warp effect. There were batteries there, and I got the right size for Amy’s tape recorder, but they didn’t sell the tiny tapes.

Barker was holding his leash in his mouth when I put my groceries in the bus. I stopped at a park to let him run, so it was nearly noon when I got back to my parents’ house. Amid the cars parked along the street, I almost missed the police cruiser halfway down the block.

Leaving Barker in the bus, I walked down the street. Officer Eva was sitting in the cruiser’s front seat, her head bent over her notebook. When I stopped beside the window, she looked up.

“Hi, Liz.” She gave me a brief smile, showing excellent white teeth. “I’m supposed to go talk to your dad. Want to come?”

“He told me about the gun.”

She pursed her lips. “You’re speaking? O’Malley thought you’d be the last to know.”

“Dad doesn’t have the gun anymore. He doesn’t know when it disappeared. He last saw it a while ago.”

“When he was brandishing it at a man whose description sounds a lot like your ex-husband’s,” Eva said, nodding. “We heard about that.” She nodded toward Mrs. Beamish's house. “Your neighbor has good eyesight.”

“Binoculars, probably.”

“She said the man had stopped in several times in the preceding month.” Eva flipped through the notebook. “Did you know that?”

“Mom told me when I got here.” I shifted uneasily. “She had a kind of soft spot for Tony before we got divorced. He evidently was exploiting that.”

Officer Eva looked skeptical. “Funny that you come home just when he’s getting bumped off. It’s no wonder O’Malley’s looking so hard for the connection.

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