Deer Duplicity by Molly Fitz

Author:Molly Fitz [Fitz, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Partridge & Pear Press

12

Back at home, I did a quick web search on the make and model of the trail cam we’d found on Ms. Miller’s porch. Once I understood how the thing was intended to work, I began taking it apart in search of evidence. Even though I followed the directions exactly, I couldn’t find the memory card that was meant to store the video feed.

“Am I overlooking it?” I asked Octo-Cat in frustration, but he didn’t find anything either.

A scrabbling at the window drew my eye across the room. Pringle stood waving with one hand and pointing at the door with the other. As much as I still hadn’t forgiven the raccoon for taking Paisley hostage last week, I did want to hear if he had any theories about what happened next door. His mind was always running at a million miles per minute. Usually that was to my detriment, but occasionally his penchant for overthinking could prove beneficial.

I set the camera down on the table, then moved toward the front door and carefully let myself out onto the porch, blocking the way so Pringle couldn’t squeeze past me into the house.

Octo-Cat followed through the pet flap. Even though he wasn’t a fan of Pringle, he was a fan of drama. He’d also become invested in this case.

“You got some new tech?” the raccoon said as soon as were standing on the porch with him, all the while rubbing his hands together as if he were washing them in a stream. “I wanna see.”

That was right. Our resident raccoon was obsessed with all forms of technology. Gossip too. Which made him the perfect spy whenever he managed to focus on the task at hand. It also meant he had a lot in common with the deceased. He might actually understand what had made Angela Miller tick, because I certainly didn’t get it.

Dang it, I needed his help.

“I’ve got a job for you,” I said, praying I wouldn’t later come to regret this.

“It’ll cost you.” Pringle rubbed his hands together faster and faster, an addict on the verge of getting a fix.

I’d given into his insane demands many times before, but now that I knew Pringle a bit better, I knew I could get by with much less. “I will let you play with my cool new tech, if you do me a favor first.”

“Favor, favor, yes!” he cried, his eyes growing wide as if he could already see a future in which he had taken possession of his prize.

There were three things I needed his help with, but if I told him the full list at once, he’d get distracted and forget to do any of it. If I told him in the wrong order, he could abscond with the evidence before actually handing it over to me. It was like a strange logic puzzle with only one right answer.

I thought it over for a few minutes to make sure I was happy with my plan of action before revealing said plan to the hyperactive raccoon.

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