Murder on a Cruise Ship by P. Creeden

Author:P. Creeden [Creeden, P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-04T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

“I’m not one hundred percent convinced that this isn’t more than an accident, but we need to be sure,” Colby said to Emma quietly as they stood just outside the staff manager’s office. He swallowed and looked both directions. “For now, come with me and watch the culprit’s response. I’ll be introducing you as part of the sheriff’s department in Ridgeway, just as I am, so go along with it.”

Emma nodded, eyes wide. Colby had always been one of the most honest people around, but this would be the second lie he’d told in such a short period of time. She swallowed hard. He had to have good reason, so she just needed to trust him. After taking a deep breath, they entered the room where the brown-suited man and the cameraman both sat on one side of the wooden table. The man in the suit stood. “What is going on? Why are we being questioned if this is an accident?”

Colby shook his head and motioned for the man to sit back down. “If nothing else, you both are witnesses. We will need to see the footage you all recorded and get your personal statements about what exactly happened.”

The man’s jaw tensed as he sat back down on the bench slowly. Colby motioned for Emma to have a seat while he also sat. Gabby, ever stalwart, already sat at his feet, ready to work whenever Colby demanded it from her. As Emma sat on the bench opposite from the men being questioned, she gave Molly the silent commands to sit, but the Saint Bernard just stood, tail wagging, wanting to see the men on the other side of the table. With a gentle tug on the leash and a tap at the base of her tail with Emma’s finger, Emma made her command just a little stronger, but still silent. Molly complied and sat her haunches down. Colby showed both of the suspects that his phone was set to record the conversation before sitting down.

“Let’s start with defining your relationship with the victim,” Colby offered and then nodded to them both. He pushed a pad and pen in Emma’s direction. “Your names for the record?”

Emma picked up the pen and prepared to take notes.

“I’m John Truman, producer of the slice-of-life segment for News on the Potomac, and this is our cameraman, Sean Rockfort.” The man in the brown suit gestured toward the younger man holding a camera with a red ball cap pulled low over his eyes.

Colby nodded. “Did either of you know the victim well?”

They both nodded, and then Mr. Truman leaned with both hands on the table. “Melinda is a hard woman. You were either on her good side or her bad side, any given day. And if she was feeling especially moody, you might end up on both in one day.”

Emma frowned. “That doesn’t sound like a very nice description.”

The man in the brown suit lifted a brow. “She wasn’t, what anyone would call, a very nice person.

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