Murder On the Guadalupe by Bruce Hammack

Author:Bruce Hammack [Hammack, Bruce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781958252109
Publisher: Jubilee Publishing LLC

Chapter Sixteen

By the time Fen made it to Mamacita’s Mexican Restaurant, the line of people waiting for a table stretched out the door and down a sidewalk. He bypassed the people, most wearing summer shorts with sandals, and joined Lou near the front of the queue. Dagger stares came from a couple in their sixties sporting an array of turquoise and silver jewelry, who must have thought he was cutting line. It wasn’t long before a hostess guided them to a seat in the corner of the main dining room. The room was made to look like the plaza of a Mexican or Spanish town, with stores lining the ground floor and fake residences above them, some complete with balconies.

“Great decor,” said Fen. “If the food is half as good as the atmosphere, we’re in for a treat.”

“I need a stiff drink,” said Lou. “It’s been one heck of a day.”

The server arrived and took drink orders of iced tea for him and a large frozen margarita for Lou.

He continued to admire the intricacies of the murals in the pretend town as Lou asked, “Did you make any progress today?”

He brought his gaze down from a balcony, looked at her, and replied, “You look tired.”

She leaned on her elbows. “Someone woke me very early this morning. By noon, I’d put in a full day and hadn’t showered yet. I should have gone back to bed. The afternoon was a lot of wasted effort.”

“Did you sell all the stories you wanted to?”

She put her elbows on the table. “I never sell as much as I believe I should, but I did all right. What about you? Did you have a productive day?”

“Like you, I divided my day into morning and afternoon. The first half was all about Jewell.”

She interrupted him before he could tell her about his afternoon with students. “I need more details on her death than what Chief Strange and the mayor told me and what they said in their press conference.”

Fen began with the first person to contact the police. “Do you know about the owner of a donut shop reporting something in the water by the park?”

Lou nodded. “I had to track him down. He made me promise I’d put the name of his shop in my story before he agreed to talk about it. It added a little human interest to the narrative, and I scored a free bear claw and a cup of coffee.” She tilted her head. “What else?”

Fen started with the early morning knock on his door and talked until their drinks, chips, and salsa arrived. He added sugar to his tea as Lou started dipping chips in salsa. He picked up a chip and dipped it into the red salsa. He had one chip for every three of Lou’s and wondered if she’d not eaten all day. She drank from a glass goblet that looked big enough to house several goldfish. The drinks and the pre-meal basket of chips were half gone when they resumed their conversation.

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