Philanderers Gone: A Hettie and Ro Historical Mystery (The Hettie and Ro Adventures Book 1) by Beth Byers & Bettie Jane

Author:Beth Byers & Bettie Jane [Byers, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Hettie flicked her finger against her palm as she considered what she should do. She wanted to know why Scotland Yard was so focused on thinking the yacht going down was a murder. In her opinion, she could imagine any individual on the yacht being murdered, but it took a special kind of cruelty and disregard of a human life to kill everyone on a yacht to rid oneself of just one fellow.

If she were to try to list all of the people who might do such a thing, she was unable to come up with one name. Surely…surely…this was all a mistake. Surely no one had murdered Harvey and his death was—if she were being vicious, she’d finish that thought with the ‘natural consequences of his choices.’

After leaving Ro, who’d looked ready to sick up at the sight of her own house, Hettie had Peterson return her to the hospital. She couldn’t imagine Scotland Yard telling her why they thought there was a murder. Not with her as a suspect. They’d soon come to realize that despite her hysterics, she didn’t gain all that much with Harvey dead.

Yes, a philandering husband was out of her life but that wasn’t worth murdering over. It wasn’t like she was left with a new fortune. She wasn’t. She might save money without Harvey and the way he tried to slide bills for his mistresses into Hettie’s payments, but she’d come to realize his game and was able to counter it.

Peterson handed her out of the auto when they arrived at the hospital.

“You know,” she told him, “I should learn to operate one of these.”

Peterson’s gaze widened as he registered what she said. Who knew he was one of those gents who didn’t agree with lady drivers? She wasn’t surprised, but she winked, remembered where she was, and then sighed. It was as if what had happened wasn’t real. Like the murder of Harvey and the others was some sort of party game where people played at why a person would be killed. It didn’t make sense if it wasn’t a game.

If it were a game, however, Hettie considered—she’d blame the widow. Perhaps in the party they would act out the scenes, or perhaps the clues would all be laid out like a puzzle. Perhaps the game would be a sort of themed scavenger hunt where you discovered more along the way of the hunt. That made more sense to Hettie.

She’d thought it before, and she’d think it again, but the only person anyone could be sure would be on that yacht was either Ro or Leonard. Lately, given what Ro had said, it would have been Leonard. So if this was truly a murder and not a random, horrible accident, the intended target must be Leonard.

Harvey couldn’t have been the true target. Not unless the murderer was also on the yacht and had a way off without becoming his own victim. Hettie didn’t think that even Leonard’s lover would be a guaranteed target.

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