Terrier Transgressions (Pet Whisperer P.I. Book 2) by Molly Fitz & Sweet Promise Press

Author:Molly Fitz & Sweet Promise Press [Fitz, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sweet Promise Press
Published: 2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

I may not have much experience with murder or crime scenes, but something about those photos jumped out at me.

“Can we lay these out in the closet?” I asked, shoving them back toward Charles.

He nodded, got down on his hands and knees, then matched the photos up to their corresponding spots in the actual physical space. Together, we spent a few minutes making sure the angles were represented perfectly.

“Okay, walk me through this,” I said, rubbing my chin with the side of my index finger. “What exactly do we know from the pictures?”

Charles pointed to one on the left-hand side of our spread. “From the angle of the blood splatter, we know that the killer approached his victims from the right.”

We both studied the wall, which had once been painted red with blood. Now it was a pristine and perfect white.

“Okay, what else?” I asked, chewing on a fingernail now that the antacid had fully dissolved. I needed something to ground myself in the now so my fears wouldn’t get the best of me.

Charles swept his vision across the arc of photographs before turning back toward me. “Well, we believe Bill was killed first and that Ruth was killed a few minutes after when she came to investigate.”

I hadn’t heard this bit before, but I also hadn’t asked for many details about the crime scene, either. One thing was for sure: I definitely needed to work on thickening my skin or at least strengthening my stomach when it came to these things—especially since it seemed investigating murders was becoming something of a habit for me as of late.

I nodded. “Okay. What makes you say that?”

“Bill’s blood was more saturated in the carpet and spread further than Ruth’s, but really it was a matter of minutes between the murders, so it’s hard to say,” Charles explained, keeping his voice steady. I wondered if thinking about the brutal killings upset him as much as it upset me. If it did, he certainly didn’t make his feelings obvious.

“Hmm,” I said, considering my investigative partner just as much as the information he’d presented. After a moment of tense silence, I grabbed a pencil from my purse and did my best to trace the area of blood splatter on the wall. Art was one of my many failed talents, but I did okay considering.

Charles panicked and tried to wrest the pencil away from me. “What are you doing?” he demanded with a look of horror on his handsome face. Although, I had to admit, he seemed less handsome today than he had at the beginning of the week. Maybe I was unconsciously beginning to associate the Hayes’s double murder with him, and that definitely wasn’t swoon-inducing or crush-worthy.

“Trying to match the evidence to the conclusion.” I had to admit, I felt very Sherlock Holmes in that moment. Well, if Holmes had secretly harbored an on-again-off-again crush on Watson. Yeah, I still hadn’t found anything groundbreaking, but something told me if we kept following this line of thought, we’d find exactly what we needed to save Brock.

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