Speak of the Wicked_A Cozy Mystery by Lotta Smith

Author:Lotta Smith [Smith, Lotta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Karen regained her composure in no time. As soon as she recovered, she summoned her butler and the maids to the salon to tidy up. The light was turned on, the candles and the Ouija board were removed, and so were the shards of broken glass. With Mr. Silverman’s overseeing, a makeshift window made of plastic film was applied to the open space so the cold winds didn’t come in anymore.

As soon as the residue of the séance was removed, the salon looked like an ordinary, elegant place to gather for tea and chatting.

No one mentioned things like the murder and the spirits anymore, and it seemed as if everyone gathered had forgotten about what they’d been discussing so far. Perhaps we could have left as if nothing peculiar had happened. Maybe everyone could have gone back to their lives. I’d read somewhere that pretending everything was fine when it was far from okay was crucial to survival in the upper crust of society.

Until Rick opened his mouth, abruptly asking, “So, what was the reason for Mr. Rosenberg’s murder? Assuming from the way you guys were steering the séance, it didn’t sound like a crime out of grudge.”

Father Harten shook his head. “I have no idea about the motive, but… I’ve heard that Michael and Mr. Grasso used to be very close.”

“First of all, Mr. Grasso is a very close friend of ours,” Karen interjected before the priest could continue. “If it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t have survived the hard economic crash about a decade ago.”

Father Harten dropped his gaze to the floor. “The video footage doesn’t come with audio, so I couldn’t figure out what their conversation was about. Initially, they were having what seemed to be a friendly chat, but at some point, they seemed to disagree about something. It morphed into an apparently heated argument, and it didn’t take long for them to engage in a scuffle, pushing and bumping each other. And then… Michael fell off the stairs and landed on the living room floor.”

The priest shut his eyes, as if he was reliving the very moment he didn’t even experience.

“And?” Rick prompted Father Harten to go on as he fell silent, sporting deep frown lines between the eyes.

“As Mrs. Rosenberg has mentioned previously, Michael had a bad knee. I think that played a huge role in this tragedy. In the video, he was captured attempting to recover his balance, but the moment he reached for the bad knee, grimacing, he fell off the stairs, straight to the marble floor… hitting his head very hard. Mr. Grasso was still there and witnessed the fall. He glanced at Michael, who was shaking and apparently groaning on the floor, but he didn’t even try to offer help before he literally ran away from the condo. Michael seemed to have tried to get up, but when he attempted to rise using his arms, they buckled and he collapsed on the floor. Look, he didn’t die immediately. Michael

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