Valleys, Vehicles & Victims: A Camper & Criminals Cozy Mystery Series by Tonya Kappes

Author:Tonya Kappes [Kappes, Tonya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tonya Kappes
Published: 2019-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

NINE

Tom Moon? What was Tom Moon doing in Lewis Malone’s room? I blinked a few times to make sure I was seeing exactly that. That I was.

When I heard sirens in the distance, I told Dottie to drive back to the campground. I needed her to be there when the police showed up to tell Shay and Misty what had happened to Tom. I also told her not to say a word until the police came.

“Please don’t be going and picking up the body, ma’am.” Jerry had come in. He stood six foot tall. His belly spilled over the top of his utility belt. “Please step outside.”

Lena Malone was shaking from the hairs on her head to the tippy of her toes. Her eyes were as wide as the full moon. She was in full-blown shock.

“I…” She gulped. “I thought it was my Lewis.”

“Where is Lewis?” I asked.

“He and Dan had rented a rental car to go to a meeting they couldn’t reschedule.” She couldn’t stop staring at Tom’s body.

The other police officers arrived on the scene and started to block off what they considered the circumference of the crime scene. They moved the guests and my friends away from the room.

“Mae, ma’am, do you two mind?” I moved out of the way when Colonel Holz had come up behind me.

Colonel was the county coroner and usually called right after the police from dispatch when there was a homicide. Hank was usually the next person they’d call since he was a homicide detective, but since he was out of town, I wasn’t sure what they were going to do.

“Yeah.” Lena Malone winked a few times, and it seemed to drag her out of her trance. She rubbed a tear off her cheek and took one last look at Tom before she walked out of the motel room.

“Do you know why Tom Moon was in Lewis’s room?” I asked her once we got outside.

“No. I don’t.” She shook her head and wrung her hands during the entire walk up to the open courtyard, where the police line had been placed with the crowd pushed back.

Coke, Violet, and Christine stood behind the yellow tape, waiting for us.

“Coke, can we go to the café and get Lena some water?” I asked.

“Yes.” Coke readily agreed. We all followed her into the café and took the first available booth that would fit all of us.

Silently, we waited for Coke to bring over something to drink as though we were all trying to process what we’d seen. Me. I was trying to figure out who killed Tom Moon as the list of suspects went through my head, starting with Gert Hobson.

“Can I talk to you in private?” Violet asked me.

“Sure.”

We got up from the table and walked outside, heading back to the fields where the wedding barn was located.

“I wanted to make sure we were away from ears and eyes.” Violet turned around and stopped. She looked at me with a serious expression that made my stomach knot.

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