Hidden in Memories by Elodie Hart

Author:Elodie Hart [Elodie Hart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2023-06-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Now that the second week of summer had officially begun, Harper had to make sure all the prize boxes were full for the reading program. So far, only Aubrey had come in to claim her first prize but Harper knew it was only a matter of time before others followed suit.

The level one prize box was ready to go. At the end of the summer pizza and ice cream party, all the participants would receive a t-shirt with the reading program’s logo. That box arrived last week and Harper just had to organize the shirts by size.

“Harper, there is someone here to see you at the circulation desk,” Reb said as she poked her head around the corner of the staff-only area, her blonde bob swinging at the movement.

Standing up, Harper went out to the front and saw Bernie waiting for her, tapping her foot impatiently. Low lighting from the boarded-up front windows gave Bernie a slightly grumpy look on her face from the shadows, but Harper knew the woman was just too excited to wait patiently. Years of experience taught Harper that Bernie would burst with excitement if she kept important news to herself.

“There you are!” Bernie exclaimed.

“Hi. What brings you to the library?” Harper asked.

“It’s a boat!” Bernie blurted out.

“Shh,” Martin chastised as he walked by.

Harper smiled apologetically at him before she turned back to Bernie. “A boat? What are you talking about?”

“Flying Hope. It’s a boat. I saw it while on my morning constitutional with Dana. We walked along the boardwalk after watching the ferry come in and then walked along the harbor. That’s when we saw it. The blue letters on a white background—Flying Hope. It’s the name of a boat,” Bernie said, her smile beaming pride for her sleuthing skills.

It took a second for Harper’s brain to catch up but when it did she smiled, her heart thumping with excitement. No wonder Bernie was in such a good mood.

“A boat. Why didn’t I think of that? If he’s not from the island he could have taken a private charter over from the mainland. Good work, Bernie.”

Bernie sobered up and hugged Harper before she pulled back, saying, “We all know what’s at stake for you and we’ll do everything we can to help.”

“Thanks, Bernie.”

“Now, you better get back to work. I’ll see you later. Ta ta!”

With that, Bernie sashayed out of the library, pulling her bug-eye sunglasses down as she stepped out into the warm summer sun.

“A boat. I wonder what it has to do with Carlos,” she muttered as she carried a book to the book return trolley.

Whatever was so special about that boat that Carlos remembered it before anything else, she wanted to find out. Maybe there was a clue or some sort of a hint that would lead to the killer—or at least an answer as to what Carlos was doing on the island.

When it was time for her to take a break, she went to the one place she knew she could find someone to go along with the plan forming in her mind.

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