Solving Peculiar Crimes by Radine Trees Nehring

Author:Radine Trees Nehring [Nehring, Radine Trees]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: woman sleuth; suspense; mystery; Christian; family; redemption
Publisher: St Kitts Press
Published: 2020-12-01T06:00:00+00:00

TRACKER

Thump!

Carrie put the last grocery bag on the kitchen table and went to hang up her jacket. Grocery shopping was not her favorite chore—that is, unless Henry was with her. He made a game of it, like mispronouncing names printed on cans and inventing bizarre recipes and other uses for perfectly normal items like frozen peas. She chuckled, thinking of what he sometimes said about those. Softballs for mice using shoestring potatoes as bats was okay, but a few other ideas? Oh, no! The chuckling softened into a smile.

Carrie was still smiling when she returned to the kitchen and put fresh vegetables in the sink. When the other groceries were tended to, she began peeling and chopping the potatoes, onions, carrots, and celery that were going in the pot of broth just beginning to simmer on the stove.

When she opened the front door to take her bowl of peelings to the compost pile, she stopped short. What was a bright red candy bar wrapper doing on the porch floor?

Oh! Probably Henry found the wrapper when he was mowing somewhere around the area. It could have blown in from the road. He probably came to get a drink from the thermos he’d left on the porch and dropped it here to add to the trash later. Oh, well. She hurried on toward the compost container and then saw that the outdoor water faucet on the house wall was dripping. What? Henry again? Washing hands or boots? Some ordinary explanation, of course. She turned off the water drip and picked up the wrapper before going back inside the house.

Carrie was popping a pan of pop-tube biscuits in the oven when Henry, fresh from a shower, came in, sniffed, said, “Umm,” and kissed the top of her head before saying anything more.

“All is well around the place. I am not looking forward to leaf removal, which is coming soon, but we’re all mowed, probably for the last time this year. I added a bag of leaves that had already fallen to the compost and saw your peelings, so I figured out what supper was going to be. How about I set the table?”

“Good, but leave the large bowls here. We can fill them from the pot on the stove. By the way, did you find a candy bar wrapper while you were mowing and leave it on the porch?”

“Candy bar wrap—no. Why?”

“There was one there when I got home from the grocery. And the outside water faucet was dripping.”

“Huh. Odd. Did we have a visitor? I was out of sight of the house most of the time, so it could have happened. Someone lost and looking for instructions to an address, maybe? I don’t think the Jehovah’s Witness visitors would leave a candy wrapper if they were here. They’d have left a leaflet.”

“True.” She turned back toward the sink. “Oh my gosh! There’s a big dog crossing our driveway, nose to the ground, and two people walking down the lane.”

Henry came to the window.

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