Oh Holy Fright by Teresa Trent

Author:Teresa Trent
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mystery, Helpful Hints, humorous mystery, family mystery, mystery with recipes, Christmas mystery
Publisher: Teresa Trent
Published: 2019-04-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

“Betsy, I am so happy you decided to help me out with this today. You see, if I want to show the new choir director I should get the solo, I need to have my copy of the solo back.”

It had been a mistake for Maggie to give her sheet music back to Joe the night she quit the choir. She was a fastidious notetaker, and if she was going to try to take down Enid, she would need her own music back. It was quite a surprise for her when Joe gave the solo to Enid. Now we knew that was because Joe could no longer hear people’s voices. Why he didn’t just choose the people he had chosen before, I’ll never know. All I could figure was that maybe his ears filtered out the nasty parts of Enid’s voice and he’d decided she was the best candidate. Nevertheless, my aunt was now angling once again for the coveted solo of the Christmas program.

My father had agreed to come over and unlock Joe’s house for us. “Wouldn’t he have left this music at the church?”

“Oh no. There’s no room for files at the church. He kept all the church’s music here at his house. Pastor Green barely has enough room to turn around.” Small-town churches tended to put most of their building dollars into worship space, not additional offices. It was a budget reality for tiny communities like Pecan Bayou.

Once inside, we saw Joe’s house was very tidy. He might have been a lifelong bachelor, but that didn’t mean he lived like one. The beds were made, the floors were swept, and the dishes were done. He would’ve made somebody a wonderful wife.

Maggie walked over to a cabinet that held three-ring notebooks carefully labeled for the different seasons of the church year. Down on the bottom shelf was a stack of thin black folders that Maggie immediately recognized. The top folder was hers.

“There it is. I found it. It’s right there. See, I told you this wouldn’t take too long.”

As I looked around the room, I noticed several beautiful hand-carved wooden pieces that no doubt had been given to Joe by Karen. Also, on his desk next to his computer was a handsomely framed picture of Karen and Joe together. Had the two of them ever been an item? He was years older than she was, and I had to think that even if they weren't romantically involved, he cared for this woman deeply. Joe had always been so gentle and kind. After meeting Karen’s husband, I saw it could be a good thing for her to have someone in her life who was so even-keeled.

I held the picture up for my father’s inspection. “Did you see this?”

His eyebrows drew together. “Oh, yes. We noticed it when we looked through his computer.”

“They look so happy together.”

Maggie stood with her hands on her hips, her music under her arm. “Well, from what I saw at the parade, she sure doesn’t have those feelings for her husband.

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