Nailed by Avery Daniels

Author:Avery Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mystery, murder mystery, amateur sleuth, woman sleuth, resort mystery, travel mystery, murder mystery, traditional mystery, murder she wrote, Colorado murder mystery, Agatha Christie mystery, ski mystery
Publisher: Blazing Sword Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2018-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

I was up a little early the next morning sitting in bed with my laptop. I tried a search for Kara and awards. I found her business website as a realtor with a section dedicated to her awards. An “I love me” award wall some might say, I suppose it is good for her work. I guess. There is a fine line between self-promotion and self-aggrandizement.

I opened a second search window and looked up Debra Graham. She was self-employed with her own grant writing business. I finally found her listed as a volunteer for a big charity luncheon from a few years back. I went back to Kara’s awards page and saw she received an award that year for the same charity luncheon. Maybe this was the award that Debra was ranting about Kara stealing from her. Kara had several awards but Debra had none. Recognition was important.

I poked around a bit more and finally found a photo in the local paper that showed Kara at the luncheon with the executive director of the charity. Behind Kara, posing with the director was Debra looking much like a deflated balloon, not envy but genuine pain.

I felt I had discovered the moment that any friendship that might have existed came to an end. The photo didn’t give me the full background or details of what happened. But it was clear that Kara being buddy-buddy with the charity director in the photo had deeply wounded Debra.

In light of how Kara acted at dinner my first night, I could believe what was captured in the photo was intended to rub something in Debra’s face, show her up in some way. I think the award going to Kara was the extra thrust that drove the proverbial knife deeper into her back and caused such bitterness to easily be brought to the surface. But, did it make her snap? Could Kara have flaunted something recently that pushed Debra too far?

I should have stopped there, shut the laptop off and gotten ready for the conference. That would’ve been the sane thing to do, but I looked up Mason and got plenty on him and his client at a Hollywood hotspot. They were sitting very close together and he looked to be whispering in her ear. I shut down the laptop and jumped in the shower.

Even if he was keeping everything strictly business and only acting like they were a couple as his cover, it still hurt. I don’t think I could ever get that picture out of my mind. I vigorously scrubbed my hair with shampoo as if I were scouring my mind of the last several days of celebrity photos out of my memory. I didn’t know all the words to the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit I’m Going to Wash that Man Right Out of My Hair so I hummed the tune with gusto. Humming doesn’t allow for much conviction.

But it didn’t change the sick-to-my-stomach feeling. The fact of the matter remained that I didn’t know him that well.

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