Tropical Destinations and Death by Patti Larsen

Author:Patti Larsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Patti Larsen Books

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Chapter Fifteen

The door to our suite opened about ten minutes after I’d set up on the table on our veranda, Daisy joining me in the shadowed warmth, a breeze making the temperature delightful, the pitcher of fresh juice a server delivered helping matters even more.

No mimosas for me, I promise. I had a job to do.

“I know,” she waved off my protest when she came to sit with me, “you’re working, and you don’t need me.” Was that a faint thrum of sadness in her voice? Made my own breath catch as I realized what sending her off to have fun might have meant to my best friend.

“I could use someone to bounce ideas off,” I said then, tentative and hopeful.

Daisy perked immediately, pouring herself a glass before topping mine off. “Hit me.”

I filled her in on everything I’d learned, Day perusing my notes as I talked it out, showing her the scrap of fabric inside the plastic baggie, the suspects I had in mind, even mentioning the odd metal box Frank was hiding and, with a smirk, that she might want to give Matthew and his buddies a wide berth if the medication he was taking had anything to do with intimate contact.

Daisy laughed at that, blushed a little. “I wouldn’t even consider it,” she said, winking.

“I can’t get access to the laptop,” I said, jiggling my finger over the mouse pad, revealing the lock screen, “or his phone,” same deal, “so until I hear from Kit about possible background connections, I’m kind of at a standstill.”

Day had flipped through the book I’d removed from its packaging, all the way to the back, where she paused and squealed in excitement before showing me what she’d uncovered.

“You have got to be kidding me,” I groaned at the list of passwords and what they were for carefully penned on the last page.

My bestie immediately tapped the proper letters, numbers and symbols into the computer prompt, making me feel more than a little ridiculous.

“I keep all my passwords in the back of my day planner.” She dimpled. “It’s silly, I know. But I like having a hard copy just in case.”

“You’re brilliant,” I said. “And, since the guy was clearly old school, this makes total sense.” I pulled the computer toward me. “Unlock his phone, would you? Take a peek?”

She dove in with so much eagerness I couldn’t stop from grinning. Maybe telling her to enjoy herself had been exactly the wrong thing to do after all.

It should have worked out perfectly, actually. Between the two of us, we could have had an amazing crime-fighting duo afternoon and found the culprit and celebrated that night with too much rum and dancing and enjoyed the rest of our vacation as best friends and sisters.

Sure, pipe dreams. Whatever the case, whether it would have ended up that way or not, I didn’t get the chance to find out. Because as I started going through Blanchard’s files, Daisy scanning the phone at my side, our third wheel decided it was a good time to interrupt.

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