[Spartina Beach Mystery 01] Death in the Dunes by Helen J. Darling

Author:Helen J. Darling [Helen J. Darling]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780999700396
Publisher: Bricolage Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Eight

The next afternoon, on the way to the gym, Gen pondered the information she’d gathered.

Why would Roberta continue to work for an employer who’d fired her three times? It must give her some sense of power, knowing that if she walked out, they’d be helpless, and Gen could see how that feeling of power would help get you through the day if you had to deal with the kind of insults that Jack dealt Gracie, for example. However, Sandra wasn’t helpless. If Roberta left, she’d be temporarily inconvenienced, but she’d find someone else to help her and life would go on. Being fired unfairly would make anyone angry. Being fired unfairly more than once by the same employer was extraordinary. Devoted as she was to Sandra, Gen found it hard to believe that no better employers existed anywhere. Maybe there weren’t any in the world of the temperamental and wealthy, but Roberta had a wide breadth of skills, and managing any office would be a piece of cake after managing multiple expensive, staffed households. Was there something else that bound her to the Benedicts and them to her? If so, what was it?

Was Lyle telling the truth about his back, about the drugs? How much had he taken from his dad? Was his relationship with Jack contentious enough to kill over?

Was it possible that Nina knew about Lyle’s drug stash, and if so, could she have taken some from him, either with or without his knowledge?

And how bad were Willa’s money troubles? While she’d told Tim Maddox on the phone that she wasn’t being paid, and thus it seemed he wasn’t being paid, it was hard to believe that her problems were bad enough to kill over. Even if she were in great debt to Tim, what was the worst he could do? Sue her? Put a lien on her house?

Did Sandra know about Jack’s intention to change the will? If she did, could that have made her angry enough to kill Jack? It was difficult to imagine. Then again, the picture she was getting of Sandra was more complex than the person she thought she knew. But, she reminded herself, the important point was Sandra hadn’t been anywhere near Jack at the time he must have ingested the pills, so she couldn’t have done it. Right?

And lastly, did she have any right to be pursuing these questions at all?

Roberta’s implication of bias had hit its mark, and it stung badly. If she were still at the Bureau, she’d recuse herself from such a case. Did she want to serve justice, or did she want to protect her friend? She wished she could say that doing one meant doing the other, but that wasn’t necessarily true. She trusted her partners and colleagues at the Bureau to get it right, but could she trust Butler? Could she trust her heart not to get in the way and jeopardize the investigation?

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