Roses Are Red; He's Dead (A Mellow Summers Paranormal Mystery Book 9) by Janet McNulty

Author:Janet McNulty [McNulty, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: paranormal mystery fiction, cozy mystery, private investigator, contemproary romance
Publisher: MMP Publishing
Published: 2015-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

With a little bit of nosing around, I learned where Billy’s apartment was. He lived on the resort in a small, one-bedroom place in the basement of the main building. Being the janitor, Emily had decided that it was best if he lived there so that if his services were needed, he would be available.

I glanced around as I approached the warped door of his apartment, making certain that no one saw me go in there. Thanks to all of the time I had spent with Tiny and his friends, I managed to jimmy the lock, which wasn’t very secure to begin with, and slip inside, unnoticed. Darkness greeted me, except for a sliver of light that poked through the two foot, rectangular window. I felt for a light switch. The moment I had found it, I flipped it on.

I almost shrieked when I got a good look at Billy’s apartment. What a mess! Empty bags of chips and cereal boxes lay strewn all over the floor. No matter where I stepped, my foot crunched candy wrappers and dried, hard candies that had melted into the stained carpet. My foot caught on a wire that had tangled on the thin fibers of the carpet, tripping me. I reached out, grabbing the sides of a chair, the smooth and gritty material making me cringe. I looked at the chair. Gum, burrowed into the threads of the fabric, dotted it in a multicolored coat of spit and stickiness. I lifted my hands off the chair, wiping them on my pants in a poor attempt to clean them.

Plastic cups rattled against one another as I crept through the room. Where would I start? I didn’t know what I was searching for; I just knew that I had to find something that would tell me why Billy had been murdered. My hand brushed a pile of magazines, knocking them off of a nearby table, exposing a phone and answering machine. The number 4 flashed in red on the machine, indicating that there were messages.

I pressed the play button and listened to the four messages.

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