Formula of Deception by Carrie Stuart Parks

Author:Carrie Stuart Parks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2018-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

Olga soon had her peeling potatoes.

“Denali told me about Quinn,” the housekeeper said. “Said the vet sent the blood and urine contents for testing. He thinks the dog got arsenic poisoning.”

A cold sweat dampened Murphy’s back. Obviously Denali hadn’t told Olga about her poisoned-sandwich comment. “Where could Quinn have gotten into arsenic?”

“He’s having Lucas go through everything in the equipment shed tomorrow.”

“I see.” She concentrated on the potatoes for a few minutes. “How long . . . how long have you worked for Denali?”

“Oh my, ever since his accident.”

“Accident? The one that . . .”

“Put him in that wheelchair, yes. Car accident. Icy roads. His wife, JoAnne, perished.”

“How sad.”

“It was terribly sad. Bad times. Really bad. He’d just lost his daughter and son-in-law and was flooded with grief. JoAnne was a mess herself, tipping the bottle all the time. He had some kind of split or altercation with a man who’d become like a father to him. I think the only thing that kept him sane was that medal of his dad’s. I think he was focusing on how brave his dad was during the war, and that he needed to be . . . Look at me! Gossiping like an old woman.” She picked up a pot holder. “Why don’t you talk about you?”

“There’s not much to talk about. I’m on my own. The apartment I rented burned down. My landlady died. I got this job.”

Olga pulled a pan out of a cupboard and placed tinfoil on it. “How long have you lived on Kodiak?”

“About a year.”

“What brought you here?”

“Did you want me to slice the potatoes or leave them whole?”

Olga paused with a stick of butter. “Don’t want to talk? That’s okay with me. I can tell you’re educated, well brought up, polite, a good worker, and in a heap of trouble.”

She stopped peeling. “Why do you say that?”

“Because a lot of people around you are turning up dead.”

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