The Black Widow Club by Hilary Davidson

Author:Hilary Davidson [Davidson, Hilary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beast Books

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I didn’t learn much at the police station. Shelley talked to the cops for two hours, but I couldn’t hear a word. When I tried to lip-read, my eyes lost focus. I settled for looking over the shoulder of the cop who was making notes.

SC home alone, he scrawled in tiny chicken scratches. SC? Shelley Cervale.

Spoke to husband. Went to bed. OTC sleeping pills. Heard noise downstairs. Oh, Shelley…

Husband said he “wanted to talk.”

Uncontrollable rages. Legal separation – check date. Affair with stripper. Pawned SC’s jewelry. Drugs – cocaine? What the hell? What was that about?

He was crazy – told her he would kill her. Must be talking about the guy who broke in.

Defensive wounds? Like Shelley was going to let anyone but her cosmetic surgeon get close to her throat with a knife.

The cop’s notes were crap. How was he going to solve the case with that? My attention wandered to the file on his desk. The top page had a photograph of a mesh bangle bracelet that was studded with diamonds. Stolen from the home of James and Shelley Cervale, date uncertain. Harry Winston bracelet, total diamond weight 40 karats. Platinum setting. Reported missing by Shelley Cervale, Oct. 8. That was a month ago.

I’d bought that bracelet for Shelley on our tenth wedding anniversary. She’d already announced that she wanted to sleep in separate rooms. I remembered hoping the gift would persuade her to ignore my snoring, but she was adamant. I tried to lift the page to see what was underneath, but I couldn’t. My fingers sank into the pile when I applied force. I tried blowing on the pages to scatter them, but that did nothing. Another cop came in with a German shepherd. It strained against its leash, barking and trying to get at me. Why could I hear it but not human voices? Great, I thought, mutts can see me. I’d always hated dogs.

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