A DOLLOP OF DEATH by Fiona Grace

Author:Fiona Grace [Grace, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

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Eliza lay in bed that night, Scout curled up by her side, and stared at the ceiling. She was desperate for sleep, but sleep wouldn’t come. Her mind was too loud—too busy turning problems over and over in a futile attempt to solve them. Cedric and Melville’s refusal to take her seriously. The terrible deal they had struck. The whole partnership being in jeopardy. Her father’s health. James’s death. Salisbury and Abernathy’s investigation. The fact that there could be a murderer on the loose. It was all too much. She was so overwhelmed she couldn’t see straight.

Take a step back, Eliza, she thought to herself. Study the picture.

Ever since she was little, when things got hard for Eliza to see or understand, she imagined them as a painting. She analyzed the figures and studied their relationships. She gleaned as much information as she could from the tableau, and often that was enough for her to finally solve the puzzle. She hoped it would work the same way now.

She closed her eyes and imagined all of the problems as a painting. In one corner, there were the Edwardses and Cedric and Melville. On the other side was her father, lying alone and sad and helpless in his bed. And there, in the center, was the murder.

As Eliza stared at the painting in her mind’s eye, she realized one central truth. Right now, everything hinged on the murder investigation. Solving the murder swiftly and effectively was the only way to get the partnership back on track, which had to happen if Eliza was ever going to successfully renegotiate the terms. It was also the only way to protect her family—the only way to ease her father’s anxiety.

The problem was that she wasn’t confident Abernathy and Salisbury would be able to solve the murder. They certainly hadn’t last time—at least, not without her. And that’s when she knew what she had to do.

If Eliza was going to save her family and her family business, she had to solve this murder herself. And come first thing tomorrow morning, she vowed, that was precisely what she was going to do.

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