Murder Wears a Mask by Donna Doyle

Author:Donna Doyle [Doyle, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PureRead
Published: 2020-04-04T22:00:00+00:00

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Library Sleuthing

He was good looking. Very good looking. Dark hair, dark eyes, tall, lean. No annoying mannerisms. A sense of humor. He wore the Settler Springs male uniform of jeans and a flannel shirt with ease.

She liked his dog. Arlo was well-behaved and affectionate. That was a good sign. You could tell a lot about a person from their pets; Kelly was convinced of that. She was still mourning the loss of her cat Jade, who had died the winter before. Jade had been the family cat for eighteen years, a tenure that had given her rank in the household, where she was petted and adored and treated like the royalty she had believed herself to be. What would Jade have thought of Arlo, Kelly wondered. And what would she have thought of Officer Kennedy?

She hadn’t intended to pursue Officer Kennedy romantically when she saw him on the Trail. Noticing that a man was nice-looking was a function of eyesight. Appreciating his sense of humor was not an invitation. She could not deny that she had been aware of him in a manner which invited contemplation on the subject. But her intentions had been entirely focused upon Lucas and they still were. Finding out that Troy believed he was innocent as well galvanized her; together, they could prove that Lucas was not a killer.

Not that she needed to be galvanized. Troy’s cautious approach was completely opposite her own response to a situation. Some of it was, she supposed, the result of his military background. Don’t rush in until every possible danger had been assessed. Some of it, she suspected, might be a tendency toward cynicism. Maybe that was Angela’s fault, Kelly thought. Losing a fiancée to a friend had to sting.

Some of it might be due to his being the newest officer on the force; he had been there long enough to sense that the family ties in Settler Springs were, in some ways, more powerful than the laws that the police department was sworn to uphold. It was interesting that when he referred to the police, he said ‘they’, not ‘we’ as if he felt distance from his fellow officers. Was it the newness of the employment or was it distrust?

And did it matter, she asked herself as she finished the monthly statistical report? He wasn’t going to hide from the truth, and he believed that Lucas was innocent.

“Good morning,” she said to Carmela, who arrived, as always, five minutes late with the usual story about traffic at the stop light. There was never traffic in Settler Springs, but five minutes wasn’t a hardship as long as the doors opened promptly at ten o’clock in the morning.

Carmela, who had enjoyed the notoriety of being in a town with a murder case, missed the excitement of the news vans parking in front of the library. “Do you think they’ve found out anything new?” she asked as she picked up books to re-shelve.

“I haven’t heard anything,” she said.

“Officer Kennedy didn’t have

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