SATBM01 - Bearly Departed by Macy Meg

Author:Macy, Meg [Macy, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cThriller
ISBN: 9781496709646
Google: i6T4DAAAQBAJ
Published: 2017-05-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Rosie nosed every bit of litter along the way home while I dawdled. Thinking hard. About Uncle Ross, who wouldn’t have killed Will Taylor even if the jerk begged him to put a gun to his head. I knew that in my gut. My uncle loved hunting—gun and bow—in the fall, but he’d never kill a human being. Or stuff him with fiber.

I wondered if Detective Mason would tell me the autopsy results and the exact time Will had been murdered. Patience, that’s what I needed. I kicked a pebble from the sidewalk. A sparrow fluttered from a low bush toward the sky, startling me.

“Oops. Sorry, little bird.” I needed to get a grip. “Come on, Rosie.”

We walked on. Next I considered Lois Nichols, who had a secret past. What crime had sent her to the Huron Valley Correctional Facility? Robbery? Assault and battery? Murder? Had that been what her husband meant? I couldn’t imagine Lois coming to the factory Thursday night, lying in wait, ready to take steps to prevent losing her health insurance. How would she have known Will planned to come that night? And she couldn’t get inside without a key.

That wasn’t impossible, though.

And then there was Jack Cullen. Why had he been snooping around the factory, wrench in hand? He’d bugged Carolyn about wanting to see Will. Too bad Mason never mentioned if the killer had gotten into the factory by prying open the back door. My sister and I hadn’t thought of checking around the building. We’d been too numb, unable to process Will’s death. But if the killer didn’t break in, then Will must have let him or her inside. Unless he left it open for any stranger to walk in unannounced.

Come to think of it, the door wasn’t locked when my sister and I arrived. I doubted if Mason thought this was a random killing, though.

What about Carolyn Taylor? A businesswoman like Maddie and me, focused on success, but clearly distraught over her husband’s affair. And with a disadvantageous prenuptial agreement that would push anyone over the edge. Unfortunately, her alibi was airtight. Mason had verified it. Kristen Bloom mentioned being grilled about the “pity party” and I’d witnessed him raking Carolyn over the coals as well. Could she have left the pub without being seen? With enough time to kill her husband and get back? Plus she was drunk out of her mind.

Was Teddy Hartman a long shot? Sure, he would have jumped at the chance to help Will take over our company. Maybe they even planned to merge the two bear factories. So why would he kill Will Taylor? Plus I’d never established whether Hartman had been seen in the village the day of the murder.

I didn’t know what to think anymore.

“Sasha!” Startled, I almost stumbled into the sharp brick corner of the drugstore. Ben Blake had emerged from the side door. “You okay?”

“Yeah. Just clumsy, as usual.”

Ben grinned and fastened the iron grille’s padlock. Rosie jumped against his jean-clad

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