Taking Notes on Murder by C S McDonald

Author:C S McDonald [McDonald, C S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cozy, Cozy Mystery, cozy mystery with pets, amateur sleuth, female protagonist, woman detective
Publisher: McWriter Books
Published: 2020-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

Uh-oh. When Fiona rolled her Cooper to a stop there was an extra car parked in front of her house. Nathan’s SUV was present, and then there was a green Ford Escape. She glanced at the clock on the dashboard. It was only ten minutes after five. Taking in a calming breath, she grabbed up her purse and backpack, slipped out of the car, and rushed up the walk.

“No, really, it’s okay. You should just try to relax, Ms. Lanza. I’m sure my wi—I mean, my fiancé will be here any minute. I hope. Here…have another cookie. My mom always says there’s nothing better than a chocolate chip cookie to make you feel better.”

Fiona could hear Nathan’s voice as she came through the front door. She quickly hung her purse and backpack on the hooks just inside the door. Her unflappable Detective Nathan Landry sounded flapped, flustered, flummoxed. What was going on? She stepped into the living room to find a middle-aged woman sitting on the couch with a box of tissues to her right and a pile of used, crumpled up tissues in a pile to her left. Her face was flushed. Her eyes were swollen. Wet, smudged, runny mascara trickled down the woman’s cheeks. The coffee table held an open bag of bite-size Snickers, discarded wrappers scattered over the table. Nathan held out a plate of the chocolate chip cookies she’d baked last evening toward the distraught woman. Harriet sat at the woman’s feet, wagging her tail, ears perked. Harriet wasn’t particularly concerned for the woman; she was more in the role of an opportunist.

“I didn’t see the signs,” the woman wailed. “How could I have missed the signs?” She sniffed into a handful of tissues. She dabbed gingerly at the already mussed mascara. “I mean, I’ve been a good wife. Faithful, hard-working. Dinner on the table every night by seven. I never complained about his guy’s night out. Oh, my God! He probably wasn’t having a guys’ night out! He was probably going out with her!”

“What is going on here?” Fiona asked, loudly.

Nathan spun around, dropping several cookies from the plate which Harriet pounced on immediately, joyfully gobbling them up. Fiona was quite sure she’d never seen Nathan so undone, even when he had seasickness on the cruise. She’d never seen his face that shade of red.

“Oh! You’re here. Thank God. This…this is Liona Lanza. She’s a wedding planner. Evidently, your mom sent her here to visit with us. She said she had an appointment.” He rushed to Fiona’s side.

She leaned in close. “What happened to her?”

“Her husband of twenty years, sent her a text message telling her he was leaving her for someone else, just as she was coming in the door,” Nathan whispered.

That was the moment the hysterical wedding planner transformed from a weeping mound on the couch to an angry tiger looking for prey to rip into tiny pieces. She jerked from her seat with her hands balled into tight fists.

“I can’t believe he’d do this to me!” She cried out.

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