The Fortieth Birthday Body (Susan Henshaw Book 2) by Valerie Wolzien

Author:Valerie Wolzien [Wolzien, Valerie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Endeavour Media
Published: 2019-08-21T22:00:00+00:00

IV

“Kathleen, Kathleen Gordon! Wait! You’re just the person I want to see!” The voice came from behind and Kathleen, who had been about to unlock her car door, stopped and turned to see who it was.

“Maureen! Good to see you. Did you say you’d been looking for me? Anything I can do for you?”

“Yes. But I don’t want to talk about it out here in the street. For one thing, we’ll freeze to death, and, besides, it’s private. Listen, there’s a bakery just down the road with tables and chairs in one corner. Why don’t we go have some coffee and a pastry and we can talk?”

Kathleen, without even a glance at the restaurant she had just left, agreed to the suggestion. That Maureen might have something to say about Dawn’s murder was worth ruining her waistline for. And, if that wasn’t what she wanted to talk about, Kathleen would change the subject and see that she did.

They were getting settled in the area of the bakery that had been decorated to resemble a café in France, as much as a ten-by-fifteen-foot space with a gray linoleum floor and no windows could be said to, before Maureen alluded to her reasons for wanting a meeting. “Like my new mink coat? It’s my payment from Colin for sleeping with that bitch.”

“Dawn Elliot?” Kathleen asked, wondering if any woman in Hancock owned anything that hadn’t been a payoff for understanding the peccadilloes of her husband.

“I won’t say that bitch’s name. I just call her the bitch. We’ll both know whom I’m talking about.”

“You want to talk about Dawn?” Kathleen tried to keep the hope out of her voice. Here she had planned a day of talking with women whose husbands had slept with Dawn Elliot, and the one woman she hadn’t been able to contact on the phone last night had just dropped out of the sky and into her lap.

“I don’t want to; I have to. I feel, in fact, like all I’ve done in the past four days is talk about her. Oh, yes, we would like to order,” she told the woman who had left her spot behind the counter to act as their waitress. “Coffee, and two napoleons and a small plate of your petit fours. And what do you want?” she asked Kathleen.

“Coffee and a napoleon,” Kathleen said, wondering if they were going to be joined by someone else. She looked around for another chair.

“No one else is coming,” Maureen said, seeing the look. “When I get upset, I eat.”

“Well, it sure hasn’t hurt your figure any,” Kathleen said admiringly.

“Oh, I can eat anything and I don’t gain weight,” was the nonchalant response. “Here comes our snack. It looks good, doesn’t it?”

It did, but Kathleen wondered if Maureen was truly upset over the discovery of her husband’s affair with Dawn. Between her enjoyment of the new fur and the way she was plunging into those pastries, she sure was hiding it well. Was she sitting across from

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