Mystery of Placid House by Kirsten Hunter

Author:Kirsten Hunter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kirsten Hunter
Published: 2024-07-03T04:03:41+00:00

Thursday

‘Ongoing investigation’ was the official line we gave to the station. I would stay here with Margot at Placid House.

As well as being hopeful of allaying my fears for Margot’s safety, I was strangely looking forward to a night where I could sleep without being called on by our four-year-old daughter, Sydney. It was normal for Bridie and me to be tortured by disturbed sleep, night after night. This parenting gig was tough. Bridie and I took turns dealing with this night-time power play. But even on Bridie’s shift, I was awake. I love Sydney, but I’m not feeling the love during these moments of delirious fatigue. It was an artform to shut off my mind for sleep, and Sydney’s midnight antics just started up my head machine again. Last night had been atrocious, but my sleep situation at home is normally a joke anyway. My level of excitement at going to sleep that night and the thought of simply waking up in the morning played happily on my mind throughout the day. I was like a child looking forward to candy.

I had called Hughes to tell him he’d need to travel to Placid House alone. On his arrival, to his surprise, I sat him down with me to talk over the facts as we knew them. I think I must have taken on some of Margot’s traits, as I wasn’t by any stretch feeling obliged to share this information with Hughes. I purely wanted the opportunity to talk it through out loud. To use Hughes as a sounding board.

We came to the summary that we were stuck on two questions. Unfortunately, they were the questions at the heart of the case. Who would’ve wanted to kill Josette? And who could have had the opportunity? Everyone who seemed to matter had an alibi. The forensic results were being rushed through. We would hear any day.

‘So, sir, to review’ – Hughes referred to his notes – ‘Claude was with Meg, moving her bookshelf. They were situated in her room.’

‘Yes.’

‘Leon and Tom were together in Tom’s room.’

‘Correct,’ I said, leaning back into a particularly nice lounge chair sitting centre stage in my room. It had old-world charm, but modern comfort. I was letting Margot have a sleep-in, so the privacy of my room turned out to be pretty handy. ‘Yes, Leon was checking in on Tom, looking after him a bit. He needed to extend into another shift.’

Hughes squirmed a little as he cleared his throat. Attention was on him now; he was no longer in the wings. This was clearly taking some adjustment for him. ‘And Artie and Paige were in the restaurant.’

‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Together in the restaurant kitchen, having a pretty busy time of it.’

‘So, all of the staff are accounted for? All of the staff have alibis?’

I laughed this off, trying to look like the veteran that I was, trying to look as if I was unfazed by our sheer lack of progress. ‘We seem to have a

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