Roses and Revenge (Port Danby Cozy Mystery Book 4) by London Lovett

Author:London Lovett [Lovett, London]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Fox Press
Published: 2018-01-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Jacob was sitting in the Port Danby interrogation room, which was really just a small room with a table, two chairs and a bench sitting beneath a window that looked out onto the street. A slightly crooked mini blind had been hung over the window. Several of the slats were missing, allowing a thin plank of sunlight into the room. There were no brutal looking interrogation lights hanging over the table like one might expect. In fact, the glass globe light that was positioned near the back of the room provided only a pale greenish glow.

Someone had brought Jacob one of Franki's three eggs and bacon breakfast plates and a coffee, but the food was mostly untouched. A box of tissue and pile of throat lozenges were sitting next to the plate of food.

Jacob was surprised to see me walk inside, but he was so sick and depressed, he hardly blinked an eye. I wasn't sure how much Briggs had told him about the scent on the pillow, but I was sure he'd mentioned his reasons for bringing Jacob in for questioning.

With that thought in my head, I sat gingerly on the chair across from him. I held my breath for a second, waiting to see if he'd tell me to get out. Instead, he plucked another throat lozenge from the pile and unwrapped it.

"I'm not mad at you, Lacey," he finally said. "I know you were just doing your job." He laughed. "Oh wait. It's not your job because you're not a damn forensic investigator."

"So that first mention of not being mad was sarcasm? Got it. And you're right, it's not my job. I've made myself and my nose useful in a few investigations, and the detective occasionally asks my opinion."

He shifted the lozenge back and forth in his mouth. "Is there a thing happening between you two?"

"Ugh, maybe this was a mistake."

"Right. Why are you here?"

"If you must know, I came here this morning to tell Briggs that contrary to evidence, I don't believe you had anything to do with Jasper's murder." Right then, loud voices on the sidewalk vibrated the window.

"What a Podunk little town. How do you keep your sanity around here? Look at this silly interrogation room."

"If you'd prefer to be sitting in between four cement walls with a one way window and painfully bright lights overhead, maybe you could request a harsher environment. But I think the breakfast, tissue and lozenges would be forbidden in a city police station." I sat forward feeling slightly sick that I'd be spending my five minutes on defense. "Jacob, I know you don't feel well and the situation seems dire at the moment, but stop being such a grump and talk to me. It's just you and me off the record. I don't work for the police."

His brow arched, and rightfully so.

"All right. I occasionally lend them my nose to sniff out clues, but this is just you and me talking. Where were you during the murder? Do you have any possible alibi?"

"Only if the bed in my trailer can talk.

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