One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon

Author:Lynn Cahoon [Cahoon, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2020-10-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Even though Mia was almost twenty minutes late arriving back at the Joneses’ house, Christina hadn’t returned yet. The house, although empty, had been ablaze with light, a stark contrast to the way she’d found her house when she’d arrived home what seemed to be days ago.

After she found the knife she sat at the kitchen table and tried to think this through. Why would someone go to the trouble of stealing her knife just to wrap it up and send it to her as some kind of practical joke? Did someone really kill Adele with one of her knives? Or was this John’s idea of a sick little joke? The guy was getting on her nerves.

Finally she picked up her cell and called Officer Baldwin. She’d reached his voice mail and left a message, and when she hung up she heated up a bowl of the soup she’d made earlier that week and turned on the television.

When the news came on she realized it was time to return to Carrie’s. She needed to clean up from the catering job. She may be arrested for a crime she didn’t commit, but she wouldn’t go without finishing her job.

As she moved the empty serving containers from the dining room into the kitchen, she tried to think through the last week. Adele’s nephew had come in as a surprise for her birthday. Then, the next day, Adele showed up dead. Stabbed. And who had a missing knife? Mia Malone, a new, thereby suspicious member of the community. Now the knife in question had been returned, so the evidence that had damned her before was irrelevant. Mia smiled. Even a bad made-for-TV movie would have better motivation.

She glanced around the kitchen for her tote baskets. She glanced at the door to the basement. Crap; she’d told Christina to take them down and out of their way. She hated basements. Mia glanced out the window, but the only car in the driveway was her van. She sighed and opened the door. The wooden stairs looked new, not like the ones in her grandmother’s basement. Mia still shuddered, thinking about the cobwebs she might touch.

Just do it. God, she hated that shoe commercial. She glanced out at the empty driveway one more time for the sports car that had whisked Christina away. Nothing. Christina was going to get a royal lecture on the importance of being dependable first thing in the morning. Even if Mia had to drag her out of bed to do it.

She strained her neck around and could see the blue plastic totes just around the corner on the bottom of the stairs. Two quick trips and she’d be in and out. Taking a deep breath, she took one stair at a time. As she reached the bottom, she heard a door open upstairs. “Christina?”

No one answered. Mia called out again. “I’m in the basement. Come and help me with these containers.”

Mia heard footsteps, and then the lights to the basement went out.

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