Batten Down the Belfry by Diane Kelly

Author:Diane Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

CHAPTER 13

THE ART OF INTERROGATION

WHITNEY

Collin stopped by my house around eight o’clock Tuesday evening. He sat at one end of the couch, rubbing the feet I’d been on all day, while I lounged at the other. Sawdust and Cleo lay side by side on my lap, each one draped over a thigh, and I paid Collin’s foot massage forward by rubbing their ears. The two purred in complete contentment and gratitude. I would have purred for Collin, too, if I could.

As he worked the ball of my foot, he filled me in on the latest developments—at least where other potential suspects were concerned. In light of the fact that Woodruff’s murder happened on our property and Sibley’s unexplained death took place right next door, I knew that the authorities were still suspicious of Buck and me, excluding Collin, of course. He knew my cousin and I were totally innocent. Even so, he could only share so much evidence that might help us clear our names.

“No one at Woodruff’s trailer park saw any unusual activity at his place. They said he was a nice guy, drove slow when kids were playing outside, kept his yard tidy. The manager said the same. Everyone I spoke to said they’d never seen any visitors at Woodruff’s trailer, let alone people coming and going at all hours. If Woodruff was selling drugs, he wasn’t doing it out of his home.”

“If?” I said. “Why else would he have a fanny pack containing individual bags of marijuana if he wasn’t dealing drugs?”

“Good question,” Collin said.

“What about the burger place?” I asked. “Could someone have followed him from there?”

“I reviewed the security camera footage from the restaurant. If someone trailed Woodruff from the restaurant, it wasn’t obvious. I ran the license plates on the vehicles in the parking lot. One of them belonged to a guy with a domestic violence charge, but his car remained there well after Woodruff was gone.”

In other words, Collin had no new leads in Woodruff’s homicide case. Darn. Of course, the deliveryman’s death wasn’t the only suspicious death under investigation. “What about Nolan Sibley?”

“His murder is in the hands of the Sumner County Sheriff’s Department. They’re keeping me in the loop, though, since his death could be related to Woodruff’s. Last I heard, they’re still trying to piece things together. He’s married, but his wife up and left him years ago. She’s living in Florida. According to the kids, she’d had enough of her selfish and greedy husband and couldn’t take it anymore. He seemed to be expecting her to come to her senses and come back one day, couldn’t imagine she’d give up a prize like him. She still had access to their bank accounts, so she didn’t bother filing for divorce. His daughter and son live here in Nashville, but they only saw him on occasion. They both said he wasn’t a pleasant person to be around, that all he seemed to care about was building his horse operation. Sibley’s son

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