Crazy, Stupid, Dead by Wendy Delaney

Author:Wendy Delaney [Delaney, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wendy Delaney
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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After Steve left around eleven, I stared at my bedroom ceiling for an hour before calling it quits on the notion of sleep and tugging on a pair of sweats.

Springing into action at the sight of me reaching for my running shoes, Fozzie ran up and down the hall, impatiently waiting for me to let him out.

Ten minutes later, he whimpered his growing displeasure with me when I parked across the street from Byron Thorpe’s childhood home. Plus, my restless dog was fogging up the windshield.

“I realize this isn’t what you had in mind,” I said while I cranked up the defrost. “You thought we were going to the dog park. We can do that tomorrow. Right now, I want to see why a developer would be so interested in this area.”

Sure, all the houses on this block were close to shopping, and the location would be ideal for anyone who wanted to shorten their commute to the hospital. But that could be said for my grandmother’s house, and no one had come knocking on her door.

I was pretty sure that was because the Thorpes’ Queen Anne–style house perched on an elevated corner lot high enough to look over all the roof lines to the east for an unobstructed bay view.

“That’s got to be the major factor,” I said, pulling away from the curb. Because the Walkers’ house next door with the dormer windows shared the same elevation. Add the Victorian with the blue trim to the mix, along with the two-story shingled house on the corner I was creeping past, and a developer would have almost three acres of prime view real estate.

“Do you know how much money that would be worth?” I mused aloud.

Fozzie curled into a ball, clearly no more interested in the local real estate scene than Steve had been last night.

“A lot.” Assuming that everyone on that block would be willing to sell.

“Byron might have some big-time persuading ahead of him to close this deal.” But based on what I observed in Gordon and Paula Easley’s behavior last Saturday, I had a feeling Byron wouldn’t be the only one in Robin’s ear over the next few days.

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