Happy 4th of July Murder by Rachel Woods

Author:Rachel Woods [Woods, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BonzaiMoon Books LLC

24

The next morning, sitting in his tiny cubicle at the Palmchat Gazette offices, Beanie took a sip of his first cup of coffee of the day.

A Word file with his notes on the Gavin de Grac murder case was opened on his computer screen.

Beanie stared at the sentence he’d bolded and highlighted: Who killed Gavin de Grac?

Beneath that sentence was the word, SUSPECTS, typed in all caps. Rubbing his jaw, Beanie propped an elbow on his small desk and considered the list of names.

Stanley Iris

Blitz, the bookie

Tommy Mizell

He supposed, at this point, each of the names could be removed from the list.

At one time, Stanley Iris had been the main suspect. The man certainly passed the motive, means, and opportunity test. Gavin de Grac’s cranky neighbor was livid about a palm tree and had, in the past, been arrested for attacking other residents. He owned a gun and didn’t have an alibi for the night de Grac had been killed.

But, despite his beef with de Grac, the evidence against Iris hadn’t held up. The man’s gun, as it turned out, was not the murder weapon. Of course, there was always the possibility that Iris had shot de Grac with a ghost gun after de Grac had stolen Iris’ gun. However, that scenario was a bit too farfetched. As was the motive of killing a man over a dispute about a palm tree. The man didn’t have an alibi, but Beanie had a feeling the old coot had been at home when de Grac was killed. Or possibly out in his yard, obsessing over the plants and bushes in his lawn.

Beanie felt confident he could strike Stanley Iris’ name from the suspect list.

Blitz, the bookie, was another suspect that was no longer a suspect. Removing Blitz was easy. The man had been in jail when Gavin de Grac was killed. Blitz hadn’t escaped jail, traveled to the Palmchat Islands to kill de Grac, and then returned to jail. The idea was ridiculous. However, it wasn’t ridiculous to think that, from his jail cell, Blitz had ordered the murder of Gavin de Grac. Knight, the bookie’s collector, could have secured a ghost gun and used it to kill de Grac.

Dropping his gaze to Tommy Mizell’s name, Beanie considered the janitor.

Mizell had admitted that he’d been hired to kill Gavin de Grac. But he hadn’t killed the man. Instead, he'd scammed Trina Walters. He’d taken her money, used it to pay his electricity bill, and took his girlfriend on a weekend getaway. Beanie considered that Mizell could have lied to him. For all Beanie knew, Mizell might have lied about stealing Trina’s money. He could have fibbed about not having the guts to kill. He might have earned the two thousand dollars. His suggestion that Trina Walters had killed her secret lover could have been his attempt to deflect guilt from himself.

Sighing, Beanie leaned back in his chair.

He wasn’t sure what to think about Mizell. The murder-for-hire situation between the janitor and the side chick was basically a “he said, she said” situation.

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