A Yarn Shop to Die For by Black M P

Author:Black, M P [Black, M P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788794457170
Google: mvj5EAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 8794457174
Publisher: MP Black Media
Published: 2024-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

The next day, Alice and Ona were leaning against the counter at Wonderland Books, hands wrapped around warm cups of tea while they talked about Edna’s murder.

“Why revenge?” Ona said, blowing steam off the top of her tea. “With Fred gone, maybe they could bury old grievances and rekindle their friendship. Frankly, I don’t like these stories about women fighting like cats over a man—they feel outdated.”

“I agree. Not my favorite, either. But I don’t think it’s as simple as that.”

Alice had given her revenge theory some more thought during the night, and she had an idea to share. But with beautiful spring weather outside, the door to the bookshop stood open and customers wandered in, demanding Alice’s attention. A man asked her if they had Clyde Digby’s novel Three Sins and a Duke (“For a friend,” he said and blushed), and Alice dug out a used copy she hadn’t priced yet and bagged it for him with a smile and an assurance that anyone—men or women—could enjoy a good, steamy romance novel.

Then she turned back to Ona to explain her idea.

“I’m thinking Jolene might’ve joined the knitting club to rekindle their friendship. After all, she was the one who got Fred in the end. With him gone, she might feel lonely. She might long to reconnect with her two best friends.”

“Former best friends. I don’t think Edna seemed up for it. She was pretty cold toward Jolene.”

“I agree. And Lillian was hostile to both of them. She seemed to show up because she somehow heard that Jolene was going to be there. Plus, there’s Cullen McGlinty⁠—”

Someone said, “What about Cullen McGlinty?”

Trudy strode into the store, looking around, as if on a mission. She didn’t wait for an answer to her question. She spotted something in a bookshelf, headed over and grabbed a paperback, then found another, and another.

At the counter, she put down a stack of books. Alice saw they were all legal thrillers by popular authors—John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Robert Bailey.

“For my waiting room,” she explained as she paid for the books. “Men like a page-turner thriller.”

“Women, too,” Alice said.

“For the women, I’ve got People Magazine, fashion stuff, even a knitting magazine. Oh, which reminds me, you mentioned Cullen McGlinty.”

“Because he enjoys knitting?” Ona asked with a wry smile.

“Because of Edna’s murder, which made me think of Lillian, and that leads us to Cullen. But I wasn’t the one who mentioned him. You did.”

“Alice had a confrontation with Cullen.”

“Well, he did all the confronting,” Alice said. “I did the walking away.”

Trudy smiled that big-toothed smile. “He’s got a history of being a tough guy.”

“Oh?”

“When I worked at a law firm in Tilbury Town, they helped a client put out a cease-and-desist letter to warn him off. He was intimidating the client.”

“I’m guessing attorney ethics keep you from telling us who the client was.”

“You better believe it. A lawyer’s only as good as her reputation.” Trudy gathered up her books. “But I’m not divulging confidential information by

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