Exercise Is Murder by Carolyn Arnold

Author:Carolyn Arnold [Arnold, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mystery series, mystery romance, Albany New York, McKinley Mystery Series, Mystery Novella, Carolyn Arnold, cozy series, Humorous Mysteries, exercise, Cozy Mystery Novella, McKinley Mysteries, Humorous Romantic Mystery
ISBN: 9781988353883
Publisher: Hibbert & Stiles Publishing Inc.
Published: 2019-09-23T22:00:00+00:00

“You have a lovely home,” Sara said warmly.

“Why, thank you.”

Leave it to Sara to always set people at ease and to be genuine about it.

“We understand that you were the one to find Katie Carpenter,” Sara began.

“I was. It was…horrible.” Lucy shook her head, and her cheeks filled with color.

“I can imagine it would have been quite the shock,” Sean empathized.

“It would have been even if I hadn’t known who it was, but when I realized it was Katie…” Her voice trailed off, and she sniffled.

“Were you close?” Sean asked.

“I wouldn’t say close, but we talked on occasion. I’m full-time at the school, and Katie was a temp. She was an excellent teacher, too. Really good with the students.”

“Such a loss to the community, and we’re sorry for yours,” Sara said, frowning.

“Thank you.” Lucy snatched a tissue from a nearby box but didn’t dab her nose or wipe her eyes. Rather, she picked at the corners and folded it into a bunch of tiny little squares on her lap. “I fidget when I’m nervous.”

“There’s no need to be nervous,” Sean said. Unless you’re guilty of something.

Lucy blew out a breath of air. “I appreciate you saying that, but I disagree. Everything about this, about her death, makes me nervous.”

Sara leaned forward on the couch cushion. “Why is that?”

“If something like this could happen to Katie, it could happen to anyone. I suppose you could just say I’m feeling my mortality more.”

Sean was confident her nervousness had more to do with something else, but they’d have to do a little pressing. “I can understand that feeling. It can make you feel afraid. Are you?”

Lucy worried her lip, folded more squares.

How small could she compact one tissue?

“Lucy?” he prompted.

“I know what the police are saying, but I think someone killed her.”

“And why do you think that?” Sean’s gaze went to the tissue in Lucy’s hand. She was starting to pick at the corners again.

“You can talk to us, Lucy.” Sara joined Lucy on the couch and put a hand on her forearm.

“Katie loved life. I’ve never seen her as happy as she has been in the last year since she shed the last of her weight, but not everyone was happy for her. Some people talked about her behind her back, whispered that she was going to gain her weight back one day. People can be so cruel.”

“They can be,” Sean agreed.

“Katie seemed to know about these people, and she just let their comments slide off her, ya know? But I think it got to her some days. People only put other people down when they’re unhappy with themselves or jealous.”

That motive—jealousy—seemed to keep coming up with this case, and Sean was tired of fighting it. “Who was jealous of her?”

“I hate to say this, but another teacher at our school, David Lawson.”

Sean would bite. “Why was he jealous of Katie?”

“She was young and had her whole life ahead of her. I think that would have been enough. But Katie had a quality to her that people were drawn to—the ones who weren’t jealous, of course.

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