Amish Quilt Shop Mystery: Amish Romance Suspense (Ettie Smith Amish Mysteries Book 5) by Samantha Price

Author:Samantha Price [Price, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14.

“And they told you this themselves?” Detective Kelly stared at Ettie and Bethany from behind his desk.

Ettie spoke up, “This is what Cheryl told us: there was a family argument that night and Ian drove off in his car. From what Cheryl said they’d been trying to find Bethany for the past weeks since Randall died.”

“Did Cheryl mention who the lawyers are? Did she give you their phone number?”

Ettie and Bethany exchanged glances and Ettie said, “No.”

“I’m waiting for the family to pass the lawyers’ details on to me. For some reason, they’re being tardy about giving that. The other thing that concerns me is that I don’t have a record of a Cheryl. I’ll track her down and see if she can give me the contact details of the lawyers.”

Ettie asked, “Did they say what the family argument was about?”

“The argument was about Bethany here.”

“So they did tell you that?”

The detective nodded. “Some of the family weren’t happy about someone they don’t know being a beneficiary of Randall Whitmore’s will. He got very ill and in his last days he told Ian about Bethany and said he wanted her to have an equal share with his son. There was an old will, but Randall had insisted on having a new one drawn up.”

“So he only told them about me when he knew he was dying?”

“I don’t know those details, Ms. Parker. Ian’s son, Greg, told me that there was a new will signed, but since Randall insisted on not giving the will back to his lawyers, Ian had hung onto the new will. Greg has been going through his father’s paperwork for days trying to locate the new will of his uncle’s but to no avail. If it’s not found, the old will must be enacted. Going by the huge argument that exploded at the mention of Bethany, it seemed Ian was the only member of the family who wanted to follow his brother’s wishes.”

Ettie and Bethany stared at each other.

“What about the sister, Cheryl?” Ettie asked.

“I wouldn’t know. No one mentioned a Cheryl when I was there. I wasn’t even aware that there was another sibling.”

“She was the one who told Bethany about getting half the money or something along those lines. She said Creighton wasn’t happy about it, but she didn’t say anything about anyone else being unhappy about it.”

“I don’t care about money or anything like that,” Bethany said.

“You can always pass it along to me,” Detective Kelly said with a grin. “I fancy myself on a yacht somewhere in the middle of the Bahamas with a cocktail in hand.” He stared off into the distance, only to look back at Ettie when she spoke.

“I can’t think why Cheryl wasn’t mentioned. Perhaps she wasn’t at the dinner that night. Surely she would’ve been on Ian and Randall’s side. She said she was there for the big family argument.”

Bethany tilted her head to one side. “Did she say she was, Ettie? Or did she tell us about it from someone who’d told her?”

Ettie inhaled deeply.

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