The Death Card: A Liz Lucas Cozy Mystery by Dianne Harman

Author:Dianne Harman [Harman, Dianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-07-13T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

“Roger, I’m sorry to bother you so late at night, but I’m really troubled by some things I discovered today.”

“Liz, how many times do I have to tell you that you’re never a bother to me? I love it when you call. The only thing I care about when you call me this late is that you’re okay. Are you?”

“Yes. I’m fine, but there are a couple of things I can’t seem to reconcile. I went to Madame Dika’s for a reading earlier this evening…”

He interrupted her before she could finish her sentence. “Liz, you might remember that Madame Dika did prison time. What part of staying away from a convicted felon do you not understand? She broke the law once, and who knows what she might do again? You were there yesterday and had a reading. Why did you go back today?”

“I feel she’s at the center of Leroy’s death. I don’t know whether she did it or not, but I want your opinion on a couple of things. First of all, I bumped into her brother, Anton, when I was there. He’s the one whose picture you emailed me.”

“Where was he?”

Liz told him about how she’d almost run into Anton in the hallway when she’d left the bathroom. Roger listened and then said, “That’s another reason I don’t want you to go there. Sean told me there was talk he was dirty, but the authorities hadn’t been able to come up with anything definite on him. Sounds like a pretty unsavory family to me.”

“Yeah, well, Roger, if you didn’t like that, I’m pretty sure you’re not going to like what I’m about to tell you. While I was waiting in the reception area for my appointment with Madame Dika, I snuck into Anton’s bedroom before he drove up. I opened the nightstand drawer that Jessica had said the gun was in. Using my cell phone, I took a photo of the serial numbers on the gun, and a few minutes ago I compared those numbers with the numbers Seth gave me this morning. The numbers on the gun in the drawer, and the numbers that are on Seth’s gun are the same.”

“Liz, that very well could be the gun that killed Leroy.”

“I know. There are a couple of other things.” She stopped talking for a moment and took a deep breath to get her courage up so she could continue. “First of all, when I opened the drawer it came out pretty far, and I saw a small notebook behind the gun. I took a Kleenex from my purse and picked it up because I was curious. I know some people keep a notebook next to their bed so they can write down their dreams or thoughts. I wondered if he was someone who did that. Instead what I found were pages and pages of numbers. On each line in the notebook were sixteen numbers, a space, and then three more numbers. I was scared and not thinking very rationally, but the bottom line is I put the notebook in my purse.

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