The Eye of the Beholder by Janice Macdonald

Author:Janice Macdonald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery: Woman Sleuth
ISBN: 9780888016508
Publisher: Turnstone Press
Published: 2018-10-27T21:01:39+00:00

20

Once Reading Week is over, the rest of winter term goes into freefall. Students are constantly popping into office hours, trying to massage out an extra mark for a quiz or puzzle through an outline for a paper that is getting out of control.

My lectures were organized and our married life was settling into a pleasant pattern. Now that we actually cohabited, Steve and I spent less time discussing every element of our workdays to each other, and more time contemplating elements of the news we’d hear over the kitchen radio, or trying to amuse each other with funny things that had happened.

I had handed in my review of the Kahlo book, with the general negative interpretation I’d received from Briar Nettles of whether or not a student would be reading an art biography for a class. I hadn’t heard much else from Steve about the case.

I knew that Kristin Perry’s body had been buried in a family ceremony, and that the Mexican government had issued a statement that it was very safe for Canadians to visit Mexico, and that this was an isolated case that most certainly had ties to the victim’s life back in Canada. I wasn’t totally sure of that, though the knowledge that she was an art student certainly spoke to it being targeted and not random.

If Steve was still in regular contact with the Puerto Vallarta police force, it was from the precinct and not from home. We had put the Mexican tablecloth into circulation with the other two we owned but it tended to remind me of death more than my honeymoon, so when it came out of the dryer, I folded it and popped it under the dishtowels in their drawer till the connection dimmed for us.

Denise had asked me if I’d checked out the art students, but it wasn’t up to me to do that sort of thing, and I was pretty sure Iain and Steve had been all over that angle. They just hadn’t found any boyfriend other than Cole, the fellow Kristin’s roommates had said she’d broken up with in January, and he had the marvelous alibi of being in Edmonton during Reading Week, surrounded by roommates and poker-playing buddies.

There’s an old police maxim that a case needed to close within a two-week window if it was ever going to close at all. We were well past that deadline now. I wondered if Kristin Perry’s family was ever going to find closure, or if they were going to decide in their hearts that adventure had killed their daughter.

My own form of adventure, marriage, was taking up a lot of my time and interest, making me far less curious about the murder than I am sure I would otherwise have been. I was discovering all sorts of interesting aspects to my own personality I’d never bothered to examine. For one thing, while I’ve always considered myself to be pretty tidy and clean in my day-to-day habits, I had nothing on Steve,

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