Whispering Pines Mysteries Box Set 3 by Shawn McGuire

Author:Shawn McGuire [McGuire, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brown Bag Books
Published: 2020-03-30T22:00:00+00:00

Alan Thibodeaux

April O’Connor

Rourke O’Connor

Lorena Maxwell

Nina Thibodeaux

Gil Bailey

Oren Bailey

Lily Grace

Another name came to me. “You’ll hate this as much as I hate Lily Grace being on that list, but we need to add LaVonne LeBeau. She found the body.”

Reed grumbled incoherently but put his neighbor’s name at the bottom. Then he put a line through her name right away. I couldn’t help but smile.

“What about your list of people who were in The Inn’s lobby last night when Suzette was being harassed?” I asked. “Let’s check that before we leave. Anyone on there you think we should add to the board?”

Reed pulled his notebook out of his pocket, unfolded the paper from last night, and gave an exhausted sigh as he scanned the list. “I don’t know. These other folks were there, but I don’t think they actually interacted with the victim. Laurel kicked them out before they could.”

“All right. We won’t add them to the board, but let’s not forget about them. Many times, the guilty party is someone who slides under the radar.”

He jotted “Inn List” at the bottom of the board as a reminder.

We made a loose plan to return to the station in the morning, review what we’d written on the board to be sure it actually made sense, and then proceed from there.

While I put Meeka’s booties back on her, knowing she’d want to run around the trench when we got to the house, Reed casually said, “Rosalyn says she’ll be here for a few weeks.”

“She’s got about a month off over the holidays. She’ll be here until the third week in January or something like that.” Then my tired brain registered the tone in his voice. “Deputy, are you interested in my sister?”

Reed flushed crimson-red and shoved his hands in his pockets. “Not seriously. We both have to go back to school.” He shrugged. “I figured if she’ll be here a while we could, you know, have dinner.”

“Are you asking for my permission to date my sister?”

“I wouldn’t tell her that. She seems pretty independent. But, yeah, I’m asking if you’d mind if I had dinner with your sister.”

I considered my answer. “As long as you kept it casual, I’d be okay with it. You both are bouncing back from relationships that ended recently. Rebounds don’t usually go well.”

His expression turned from embarrassed to contemplative.

I held up a hand. “I don’t even want to know what you were just thinking. Let’s go get some sleep.”

“Yes, ma’am.” He held the back door for me as I carried Meeka out to the SUV. She squirmed in my arms, eager to run, but I didn’t want her getting snow on her booties and then all over the back of my car. He opened the back hatch for me next. “See you tomorrow, Sheriff. Sleep well.”

I smiled as I tucked Meeka into her cage. My sister could do far worse than Martin Reed. Then I realized, this could put her on a collision course with Flavia.

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