Shotgun Moon by K.C. McRae

Author:K.C. McRae
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, mystery fiction, mystery novel, novel, fiction, cricket mcrae, medium-boiled, soft-boiled
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2013-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

fourteen

Merry walked into her aunt’s house and found Shirlene and Kate seated together on the sofa. The shades were half-drawn and the atmosphere was gray and musty with worry. Kate waved her in, still talking to Shirlene. “I’m surprised they arrested her on what they have. Right now our main focus has to be on getting the judge to set a reasonable amount of bail and then coming up with it so you can get your daughter out of jail. I don’t know what will come after that yet—I’m sorry, Shirlene, but I really have to talk to some people and see whether there’s anything else in the mix we don’t know about.”

“There is.” Merry dropped into the recliner and told them about the fingerprints on the murder weapon belonging to Lauri, and that the footprints under Clay’s window matched a pair of boots taken with the warrant. Shirlene stared at her slack-jawed.

Kate’s expression was sober as she absorbed this new information. “You’re sure about the gun?”

Merry nodded.

“How did you come to find out about it?”

Merry told her about Jamie. “He’s probably telling me things out of school. It’d be good if you didn’t spread around where you got the information.”

Kate shrugged. “I’d find out soon enough anyway. This just gives me a leg up. Tell me what else he told you.”

“Nothing that would matter.”

“Let me decide that.”

Shirlene said, “Lauri’s going to trial, Merry.” Her voice broke. “Please. Anything might help.”

Regretting bringing up Jamie’s name at all, Merry sketched out what he’d told her, including the information about Gus Snyder and his alibi for the night of the murder. For good measure she threw in what she had gleaned from Anna Knight while giving blood, though much of it was repetitive. Kate wrote on a yellow legal pad as she spoke, scribbling in the weird shorthand Merry remembered from high school. The fan sounded loud in the quiet that followed.

“Well.” Kate leaned back. “We still need to work on that bail. I called the courthouse and the hearing is scheduled for tomorrow morning. Once the judge sets bail—and they should unless it’s a capital crime—we can figure out where to go from there. I’ll meet you at the courthouse at nine a.m. Okay, Shirlene?”

She nodded.

“But if I find out anything before then, I’ll call you here, okay?”

Shirlene nodded again, her lips pressed together.

“It’ll work out. We just have to take it one step at a time,” Kate said. She clicked her briefcase closed and stood. “Merry, can you give me a ride? I walked and I’m running late.”

“Uh, sure,” she said, but her attention was on Shirlene, who was rubbing her face with both hands as if trying to wash it all away. Her aunt felt her gaze and looked up.

“I’m okay,” she said.

“You sure?”

“Yeah.”

“I’ll come get you in the morning and take you to the courthouse.”

“Thanks. That’d be good.”

She hugged her aunt and went outside with Kate. “You walked?” she asked when they were on the street.

“You thought I made that up?”

“No.

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