Scene of the Crime: Widow Creek by Carla Cassidy

Author:Carla Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

LEXIE FELT AS IF SHE WERE on fire as she headed back to the house. Her brain screamed with troubling thoughts that shifted around and around like nebulous shadows, seeking some kind of logical explanation for what didn’t make sense.

She was vaguely aware of Nick following behind her as she entered the house, yanked off her jacket and then stood in the center of the kitchen, unsure of what she should do next.

“Lexie, sit down,” Nick said as he took off his own jacket. “Tell me what’s going on in your head.”

She looked at him helplessly, then sank down at the table. He sat next to her, the familiar scent of him momentarily slicing through the chaos in her mind.

If she hadn’t been in such a fog of grief the evening before when Lauren had first been found she would have realized that something was wrong…something was very wrong about the whole situation.

Nick’s gray eyes gazed at her in confusion and for just a moment she wanted to fall into their depths, lose herself once again in the warmth and comfort of his arms and forget the bad feeling that now threatened to embrace her.

She shoved that desire away, knowing that it was just a convenient and very temporary escape from the questions that now clawed at her.

“There’s no way that sometime on Wednesday or Thursday Lauren fell and hit her head and died there on that creek bank, because if she had I would have found her body there Friday night. I think Lauren was killed someplace else and then moved there.” She wondered if he thought her grief was making her crazy.

“Nick, I’m telling you she wasn’t there Friday night. I walked that entire area. Zeus and I searched for her. She wasn’t there and nobody can make me believe otherwise.”

He frowned. “But if what you say is true, then Gary Wendall would have had to know about it, he’d have to be a part of it. Gary is lazy and maybe more than a little incompetent, but I can’t imagine that he’d kill a woman or know somebody who did and then conspire to make her death look like an accident. And in any case why would he or anyone else want Lauren dead?”

Lexie blew out a sigh. “I don’t know.” She took off her glasses and rubbed at her eyes, wondering if her grief was, indeed, making her crazy. Who on earth would want to harm her sister? Lauren had been kind and generous and Lexie couldn’t remember anyone ever having a beef of any kind with her.

“If you really believe that, then what do you intend to do about it?” he asked.

“The first thing I’m going to do is get back in touch with the funeral home and tell them I want a complete autopsy on Lauren. I want to know if the head wound that killed her was from a slip and fall or from blunt force trauma.”

“And if you find out it was

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