Turnover and Die by Tegan Maher

Author:Tegan Maher [Maher, Tegan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tegan Maher
Published: 2019-07-07T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Just as we were setting the table, the guys thunked down the stairs, their work boots sounding like they weight fifty pounds and were made of concrete. Or steel, I supposed.

"Morning, ladies!" Jason, the guy who'd originally contacted us about renting a room, said, smiling. He stuck his nose in the air and sniffed. "It smells amazing as always. Is that hot maple syrup?"

I slid a plate heaped high with pancakes onto the table and Dee placed a small pitcher of the warm syrup down beside it. "It sure is. No pancake is complete without hot maple goodness to drizzle over it."

"Or at least peanut butter and bananas," Dee said.

I shot her a glance. "You're kind of a weirdo on that one, but I'll let it pass."

"Hey," she said. "It’s just takin’ Elvis’s peanut butter and banana sandwich to the extreme. Can you carry a pancake covered in syrup with you? No, you can't. But you can slather one with peanut butter and slice a banana onto it, then fold it in half and take it wherever you want to go."

Lou, another of the crew, laughed. "Now that's a food group I can get behind. If there are leftover pancakes, I wouldn't mind taking a couple of those for lunch. It'd be like lunch and dessert all wrapped into one fluffy, delicious package."

Danny, the third member of their group, didn't waste any time jabbing a fork through a couple pancakes and lifted them onto his plate. "Same for me, but you're assuming there are going to be leftovers."

The guys took a couple minutes to heap their plates full and dig in, and Dee and I did too. Eating was serious business to them; they treated it like it was a competitive sport.

After he'd made it a third of the way through his plate, Jason turned to us. "So what's this about one of the cooking competition judges being murdered? I saw it on the news last night. Is that the same one you're competing in, Dee?"

So much for them not hearing about it. Good news travels fast, but usually depends on word of mouth. Bad news, on the other hand, makes the news for all to see.

"It is," Dee replied, dragging a piece of bacon through a puddle of syrup. "It's kind of shocking to me, because she was the nice one out of the two. Tragic, too. She did a lot of good in the cooking community."

"So what happened? The news just said she was attacked outside her hotel room."

"Yeah," I replied, then figured I may as well fill in the blanks for them. "Somebody hit her in the head with an iron skillet."

"Wow," Lou said, "What a way to go. Do they have a suspect?"

Dee and I glanced at each other, unwilling to admit they'd spent the night in the same house as the person suspected.

"They do," she replied carefully. "But we think they have the wrong person. There are several people with motive, and the investigation is just getting started.

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