Stitches and Witches: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery (Vampire Knitting Club Book 2) by Nancy Warren

Author:Nancy Warren
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781928145523
Publisher: Ambleside Publishing
Published: 2018-10-11T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

I was reading the surprisingly glowing report on Katie from Australia when Rafe appeared like a puff of black smoke at my elbow. He didn't actually materialize, but he was so soft-footed and untroubled by doors and locks that it always appeared that way to me. He said, "You're looking serious."

"Not serious, puzzled. Katie, aka Katya, is a terrible waitress but an excellent knitter."

"It's good to have a hobby in jail. Helps pass the time."

That’s probably why I was looking serious. “I don't think she is a killer. And, furthermore, Nyx likes her."

Nyx was currently rubbing herself against his legs and he looked down. "Nyx is a very poor judge of character." Then he picked the cat up. She crawled up and over his shoulder and hung there like a sack of grain, if grain could purr.

"I'm thinking about hiring Katie."

"Why?"

"Because she can knit, and she has an excellent reference from a previous knitting shop. She took that tangle I’d made and turned it into an actual sock. It was magic."

He looked unimpressed. "Perhaps it was magic. Maybe she's one of your sisters?"

I stared at him. "There are spells to untangle knitting?" Why had that never occurred to me? That heavy, ornate grimoire was full of love spells and forgetfulness spells, spells for finding lost items and many ways to curse your enemies, but I didn’t recall seeing anything about untangling botched knitting. If I'd known I could've used magic I would have done.

"Ask your grandmother, I'm sure it's possible."

I felt my mouth take on the shape of a pout. "Gran never told me about such a spell."

"I suspect it's because she wants you to learn how to knit."

"She was much nicer when she was alive." It wasn't true, but I was enjoying my pout.

"We know so little about Katie, Lucy, she could well turn out to be a murderer."

I didn't think she had any reason to murder me, but then she didn’t seem to have a reason to kill the colonel, either. "She did let drop a very interesting piece of information. There was rat poison in the kitchen."

“I’m no expert, but I don't think that will turn out to be the poison. First it’s got a very strong flavor. Tea wouldn’t be enough to mask it. And the victim would take longer to die."

I really didn’t want to dwell on that mental picture. "I keep wondering who would want Colonel Montague dead."

"I’ve been asking around. The old boy’d been acting irrationally. Possibly from dementia. Until the autopsy’s completed it will be impossible to say what disease he suffered from. It could be Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, even bipolar, but he’d taken to spending vast sums of money on extremely peculiar purchases. He bought a racehorse with no background in racing. Then a vintage Aston Martin and he was talking about buying property in Ibiza. The man didn’t even like travel.”

“Could he have mixed up his medication somehow and poisoned himself?”

“No. Sorry, Lucy. I wish, for your sake, I could spin this as an accident, but he was definitely murdered.

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