A Pizza to Die For by Chris Cavender

Author:Chris Cavender [Cavender, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781445860350
Amazon: 144586035X
Publisher: Chivers
Published: 2010-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

My telephone jarred me out of bed at three A.M., and as I reached for it blindly, I wondered who would be calling me at that hour.

“Keep nosing around where you don’t belong and you’re going to pay for it,” someone said in a gravelly whisper before hanging up.

It appeared that I’d made an impression on someone in my questioning.

But it would have been nice to know who.

I called Maddy immediately, and was surprised to get a busy signal. It was on the edge of possibility that she could have made the call as a twisted joke, but I had a hard time believing it. I hung up, and was about to try again when my telephone rang.

As soon as I heard that it was her, I asked, “You got a threatening call just now, too, didn’t you?”

My sister seemed surprised by the statement. “Are you saying that you didn’t just call me?”

“And threaten you? No, that wasn’t me.”

Maddy said, “If you thought it was funny, you’re wrong.”

“Maddy, wake up,” I said loudly.

“I’m awake,” she protested.

“Then think about it. In your wildest dreams, can you ever imagine that I’d find something like that amusing? You maybe, but me? Never.”

She took a deep breath, and then let it out. “You’re right. I might do it on a whim, but you never would. Wow, I can’t believe someone actually threatened us.”

“It’s great news, isn’t it?” I asked her.

“I’m not so sure about that,” she said.

“Think about it. We managed to get someone so riled up in the past few days that they thought they had to try to scare us off.”

She hesitated, and then said, “But maybe not the murderer.”

“I told you before, I don’t believe in coincidences.”

“That might not be what this is. We’ve been digging into a lot of people’s lives, only one who is likely a killer. But that doesn’t mean other folks don’t have secrets of their own to hide.”

She had a point, I knew that, but I wasn’t about to embrace it. “I refuse to accept that,” I said. “I’m looking at this as good news.”

“Wow, then I’d hate to hear what thrills you. Eleanor, should we call someone about this and tell them what happened?”

I thought about it, and then answered, “In this day of disposable cell phones, I doubt anyone would be stupid enough to call us from their home phone. If we tell Kevin Hurley, then we have to admit that we’ve been digging into Judson Sizemore’s murder, and that’s a conversation I don’t want to have. If we tell Bob, he’ll just worry about us, and it won’t do any good.”

“Then we keep this to ourselves, at least for now,” Maddy said.

“And we keep digging,” I added.

“See you in a few hours,” she said.

“If you can get back to sleep.”

“Trust me, I’ll be out before you’re off the line.”

I doubted I’d be that lucky, but I had to try. I couldn’t face the day without at least making some kind of attempt to get more rest.

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