Sour Grapes by McKevett G. A

Author:McKevett, G. A. [McKevett, G. A.]
Language: deu
Format: epub
Published: 2013-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

The technicians were pouring a plaster cast of the tire track, and Savannah and Dirk were observing the process, when Catherine Villa drove up in a green Jeep Cherokee. She stopped short at the yellow tape barrier, jumped out, and ran straight to Savannah.

“Oh, my god! I can’t believe it. That poor girl!” She glanced around the scene, at the coroner’s wagon, at the Search and Rescue team members who were packing their equipment into their van. “Where is she? I mean, where is the body?”

“They’ve already recovered her remains from the hillside,” Savannah told her. “Dr. Liu has her in the wagon now, and she’ll be taking her away in just a few minutes.”

“But what do you think happened to her? Do you suppose she went for a walk out here in the dark and fell off the cliff?”

Savannah considered telling her about the tape bindings, but under these circumstances she had often found that the less said the better.

“We don’t know exactly what happened to her yet, Mrs. Villa. The doctor will perform an autopsy on the body and that should give us some answers.”

“This is just so terrible. We’ve never had anything like this happen around here. I’m sure as soon as the press hears about this, they’ll be all over... and with Tony’s candidacy. Oh, dear, this is just such an awful time to have something like this happen.”

Savannah took a deep breath and gathered what little of her patience remained. “Yes, Mrs. Villa, it’s perfectly dreadful. But then, there’s no convenient time for someone to be murdered.”

Catherine hesitated a long time before answering. She, too, appeared to be marshaling every ounce of courtesy that she could muster. “I realize, Savannah, that my comments may sound somewhat insensitive to your ears. But Tony and I have worked hard and long for him to win this senate seat. We’ve invested everything we have, financially, emotionally, so you’ll just have to forgive me if I seem to be overreacting to this situation.”

“Murder is always serious, tragic business,” Savannah said. “It would be difficult for anyone to overreact to a young woman losing her life this way.”

“Murder? Is that what you said? You actually think someone killed that girl?”

Catherine Whitestone-Villa was turning so pale that Savannah was seriously considering the best way to catch her when she fainted.

“It may be a homicide,” Savannah said, “and maybe not We’ll see, once Dr. Liu has completed the autopsy.” ‘This is so awful! I wish we had never sponsored this pageant. Then none of this would have happened.”

“Well, as I said, we’ll know more later. So there’s no need to speculate at this point.”

Catherine shook her head, disbelief and shock registering in every aristocratic line of her face. “And what are they doing over there... on the ground?” she asked.

“They’re taking a plaster cast of a tire mark there in the dirt.”

“It’s true then—the police are treating this as a homicide?”

“Not necessarily. They’re just making sure to cover all the bases. By

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