Turning for Trouble: Book 7 of Cat Detective Familiar Legacy mystery series by Susan Y. Tanner

Author:Susan Y. Tanner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: KaliOka Press
Published: 2018-07-08T17:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Hmph. Staying behind to listen to the Detective Hendrix question Luke Roberts once more proved a complete waste of my time. The detective learned nothing of consequence, if anything at all. Therefore, neither did I. Not that I think Luke had anything to do with Roland Walker’s broken neck, but there are times humans know more than they realize and a question or two can bring it to the forefront. My role model Sherlock, as skillfully portrayed by the highly esteemed Cumberbatch, was adept at that method of discovery. A word or phrase here, a tangible clue there. Weave it together and – voila! – a mystery is solved. I’ve become adept at the same methods but am too often hampered by my inability to pose questions to the humans who are central, whether knowingly or unknowingly, to the mystery.

I had suspected I’d gain nothing from this interrogation. Nevertheless, it did behoove me not to miss an opportunity where I might. The work of a detective, even one so skilled as I, can be tedious but the rewards in enduring that tedium are great.

Much of detective work involves intuition and mine tells me that Tyge’s encounter with those thugs is somehow linked to young Walker’s death. It is, of course, possible that there’s more than one set of bad guys on the scene and that the two are unrelated but my mind does not lean in that direction. I believe there’s a link and, if it exists, I will find it.

For now, I’ve been too far and too long from my charges.

MALONE MOVED her bucket of brushes and combs and sprays to the next stall. Everyone got at least a half hour of grooming every day. Joss made it easier than it had ever been for her to give them that time and attention. The girl seemed tireless, constantly making rounds to clean and refill water buckets and scoop droppings from shavings to keep their stalls as clean as possible. Malone had told her, only half-joking, that she was going to have to find a gym to stay in shape if Joss kept doing the hardest work. Joss had just smiled and shook her head and kept going.

Trouble joined her halfway through the grooming, moving languidly from stall to stall with her as she worked. With each relocation, he chose to sit upright in the open stall door, either careful to stay out from under sharp hooves or careful to sit where he could watch the hallway and the approach of any human. Malone wouldn’t have bet against either probability.

As she ran a brush over a sleek red rump, she said a soft prayer for that horse as she did for each of them as she worked. Scoop was her partner for tonight’s performance. He was a quiet gelding, neither flashy nor fiery so he rarely drew much attention outside of the arena, but inside, oh my, could that boy run and turn with a smoothness that deceived all but the timer.

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