Ice (A Chris Matheson Cold Case Mystery Book 1) by Lauren Carr

Author:Lauren Carr [Carr, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy, Romance, suspense, police procedural, Crime Fiction, cozy mystery, whodunit, Mystery
Publisher: Acorn Book Services
Published: 2018-02-25T22:00:00+00:00

Helen wanted to kick herself. You’re in your mid-forties, you idiot. If you caught Sierra behaving like this, you’d give her a stern talking to about behaving more her age. Still, Helen couldn’t help herself. When Chris poured on the charm and asked Peyton Davenport to the Valentine’s Day dinner dance, she felt the green-eyed monster brewing inside her.

In her head, she knew that Chris was using Peyton’s attraction to get close to her so he could find out the truth. It was obvious that Peyton had prepared for a visit from the police asking about Tommy Bukowski.

Helen hoped that she succeeded in giving Peyton and Rachel a false sense of security by playing down their interest and seeming to go through the motions of the investigation to appease a worried girlfriend. Helen was pleased with how she had purposely flubbed up Tommy Bukowski’s name. That false sense of security could make Peyton drop her defenses enough for Chris to pick up something useful during their date.

Turning her cruiser into a parking space in front of the sheriff’s department, Helen groaned at the thought of Chris taking Peyton Davenport out on a date. Imagining Peyton’s privileged family, upbringing, and luxurious life made Helen’s stomach ache.

She felt like damaged goods.

Seriously? At your age? After all these years? You went to college on an academic scholarship. Raised an outstanding family. Graduated from law school, the police academy, worked your way up in the state police. You’ve raised a good kid who’s always on honor roll. She sighed. Guess that feeling never goes away.

Memories of her time with Chris flooded her thoughts—long talks while holding hands, passionate afternoons in the hayloft, and tender declarations of first love. She felt flush when she recalled how the touch of his hands on her flesh made her heart race with excitement. Never did any man make her feel that way before or since—not even Sierra’s father.

If only — Helen pushed the thought from her mind. No, I had to end it. I’d made a promise and there was no way I could have kept it if I hadn’t ended it with Chris.

She shoved the cruiser door open and marched into the sheriff’s department. Accustomed to the state police lieutenant’s visits, the deputy allowed her beyond the security check point to go to Deputy Sheriff Rodney Bell’s office.

The door open, Helen went inside to find the office empty. Concluding that he had stepped down the hall, she set her briefcase in a chair and took off her coat. After draping it across the back of her chair, she turned to sit when a name on a case file in the center of Rodney’s desk caught her eye.

It was not an unusual name. Normally, she wouldn’t have noticed it—if she had not heard the name uttered less than thirty minutes earlier.

Tabler, Mona.

Chris’s journalist friend Francine had just mentioned it. Chris said the murder had been one of his father’s cold cases.

If this is a state police case, then

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