The Showstopper by Robin Merrill

Author:Robin Merrill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mystery, funny cozy mystery, Maine, Christian cozy mystery, christian books for women, christian books for mothers, supernatural mystery, supernatural mysteries, amateur sleuth
Publisher: New Creation Publishing
Published: 2019-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Sandra laid her cheek against the green room’s door. “You guys doing okay in there?”

Corina’s response came immediately. “I have to go to the bathroom.”

Sandra waited for more information, but none came. “Gloria? Do you want me to take her?”

“Absolutely not. She can either hold it or go in here.” She sounded exhausted and terrified. “We’re not coming out, and we’re not letting anyone else in.”

“Anyone else? Why, did someone try to get in?”

“Yes,” Gloria whispered. “Matthew. He said it was warm in here, but it’s not that warm anymore.”

“Did he try to force his way in?”

“No. He just begged.”

“Good.” Sandra looked up and down the dark hallway. “You guys are doing well. Did you find the phone?”

“No.”

She said it so quickly that Sandra wondered if they’d really looked, but how could she nag them about that? “Are you still looking?”

“No.” Another quick negative.

Sandra tried to think of a way to be tactful and couldn’t so she decided tact was unnecessary right now. “Did you do a thorough job? We really need to find it. Have you looked everywhere?”

“Yes!” Gloria’s voice was closer to the door now. “And I really don’t give a rat’s buttock about that stupid phone.”

Sandra tried not to be annoyed, and failed. “Even if it lets us catch the killer?”

Gloria snorted. “Catch him? What are you going to do with him then? What good does it do to catch him? Won’t that only make him mad?”

While Sandra was trying to figure out a way to respond to that, Bob appeared beside her with wet hair and flushed cheeks. She hadn’t known angels could get flushed cheeks. “I found it!” He opened his palm to reveal a giant iPhone in a bejeweled hot pink case.

Sandra gasped. “Where was it?”

“Where was what?” Gloria asked from the other side of the door.

“Uh ... nothing. Sorry.”

“Come on, let’s go to the prop room,” Bob said.

She couldn’t get there fast enough. Bob opened the door as if it had never been locked, and then Sandra stared around the room in wonder. It had been a mess before. Now it looked like a cyclone’s ground zero. “Uh ... what happened here?”

“Sorry,” Peter whispered, not looking the least bit sorry, his left hand full of ropes of varying sizes. “I’ve been looking for the phone.”

“In the rope box?” Bob asked.

Peter shrugged. “Seemed as good a place as any.” Despite her near-rabid curiosity about where Bob had found the phone, Sandra did pause to appreciate her son’s ingenuity.

Bob held up the phone. “You don’t need to look anymore.”

Ethel rushed over to peer at the phone. Peter folded the top of the rope box shut and sat down on it.

“Where was it?” Sandra asked impatiently. She was considering throttling an angel.

“Outside.” Bob looked around for a seat and then rearranged some totes to fashion himself a perch.

“Tell us!” Sandra almost-hollered.

He grinned mischievously. “Okay. So, I watched Jan find it. And it was weird. She found it in the sound booth, and she seemed surprised to find it.

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