Grave Risk by Hannah Alexander

Author:Hannah Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises Ltd.
Published: 2007-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Edith had been gone a week.

Jill checked her bedside clock. Actually, it would be a week in six hours, seventeen minutes.

The sun wove an exquisite tapestry against the bedroom ceiling, casting elaborate shadows of dark and light through the branches of a spruce outside Jill’s window. All she wanted to do was cover her head and sleep the day away.

But it was time to get a grip on her emotions. Maybe it was a good thing she had the slumber party tonight, as silly as it sounded to have four grown women in their midfor-ties trade insults and recipes at a bunking party.

But there was still the whole day to endure until she drove to Big Cedar. What else could she do to kill time?

She had already gone through the things Edith had left her. The study Bible was the best item, especially since Edith had made her own notes in the wide margins of the script. Her words had been a calming influence these past few days, when every crack between door and jamb sent Jill rushing to see if someone could be watching her from the other side of that door. Every odd sound in the house made her tense with fear.

She thought about the boxes she had shoved beneath the stairwell. If there was any kind of clue about Edith’s death among those things, she certainly hadn’t found it. She remembered the bluebird button, which she had placed in her medicine cabinet for safekeeping. The button looked handmade, and it still intrigued her.

She had found a sheet from Mary Marshall’s, then Mary Larson’s school record, though it was incomplete. The record contained notes of Mary’s grades—which had spiked during the first semester of their junior year, then dropped sharply at the end of that year.

Jill had found a handwritten list of dates for conferences with Miss Marilyn Sheave, but no record of those conferences. Maybe Mary had picked them up.

Jill couldn’t place Miss Sheave. Maybe she would ask the others about it tonight.

She’d done a cursory inspection of the files Jonathan seemed to think Edith would want her to have. Why he thought that was anybody’s guess. There were some other student records besides those of the three boys. The file folders had looked much like her own, which she had picked up in August when the school placed an announcement in the paper that they would be destroying all old student records that weren’t picked up before the next school year began.

Her own records were pitifully inadequate, with half the information wrong. Obviously, Edith hadn’t been in charge of forms and student records back when Jill was in school, or they’d have been done properly and completely.

Anyway, there was nothing more there through which she might dig and kill some time. Maybe she could show up at the clinic this morning. Ginger Carpenter was covering it with Karah Lee and Blaze. The clinic was open only two Saturday mornings a month now, since it also provided later hours on Tuesdays and Fridays for the convenience of those who worked weekdays.

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