The Ghost Dances the Nutcracker by Kristine Frost

Author:Kristine Frost [Frost, Kristine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21—Scotland Yard—London’s office

Georgette hung her coat on the coat hook, then dropped into her chair, yawning.

“Rough night?” Farmer asked while Deacon said, “Stop that or you’ll have all of us yawning all day.”

Georgette stuck her tongue out at Deacon while turning to answer Farmer. “The whole day kind of stunk. Hinckley needed me to help out on a secondary crime scene for Parker’s case. If I could have thought of a reason, I’d have told him I was sick but I didn’t think he’d believe me.

“I’m surprised Parker would let you work with his team. You know how jealous he is of London. That includes his team.”

“He isn’t the greatest DCI I’ve ever worked with. He doesn’t give his team any direction nor does he check on what his team is doing.”

She told him about the jewelry in the cream jars. “I was totally stumped on what to do with all that make-up. The bottles didn’t look big enough to hold anything, but there must have been five thousand pounds of jewelry hidden in those bottles.”

She shook her head. “That’s not the worst though.”

“What’s worse than working with Parker?”

“I ended up having dinner with him, his wife and her parents.”

Farmer shuddered. “That must have been awful.” He mimicked a teenage girl’s voice.

Georgette threw her gloves at him.

Deacon grinned. “I assume you didn’t start out to have dinner with them.”

“No. I was having dinner with my old roommate, Judy Van Dam. Judy’s sister, Janet, is married to Parker. We had just ordered when they all walked in. Their parents insisted that we join them. Parker was not happy.”

She shrugged. “I wasn’t happy either. On the way home, Judy told me that she thinks Parker emotionally abuses Janet. She didn’t say much during dinner—three sentences to be exact and she looked at her husband, almost like she needed permission from him to speak.”

Her hands clinched into fists. “Every time she said something he didn’t like he’d clear his throat and she’d huddle. I wanted to jump over the table, slap her and throttle him.”

Tolliver pushed open the door just in time to hear her comment. “That sounds a bit extreme, but if you’re talking about Parker, I’ll help you.”

London followed Tolliver in. He turned to look at Tolliver. “When did my team get so blood thirsty?”

Georgette told them about working as part of Parker’s team.

“Did you find anything?” London asked, almost as if he wasn’t really interested. Farmer and Tolliver exchanged glances.

“Sadly, yes. Zufelt, who is a good forensics man said Parker found a paint knife with Tabitha’s name engraved on it. They also found a big puddle of half dried blood.”

London frowned. “Half dried blood. Had that been where Duval had been stabbed, the blood would have been completely dry.”

Georgette grinned. “Duval was strangled.

“That’s what Zufelt said. The lab is trying to match the type and the DNA. It looks like we may have two murders.” Georgette shuddered.

“Tabitha might have been the third one if she hadn’t called the police and they arrived so quickly.

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