Icing on the Casket by Catherine Bruns

Author:Catherine Bruns
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, culinary mystery, clean mystery, cozy culinary, clean and wholesome
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

"Are you sure it's not in the house somewhere? Or maybe the bakery?"

"Positive, Sal. I must have lost it at Phibbins Mortuary when we dropped off the cookies to Linda."

I suppressed a groan. It would be nice to limit my trips to the funeral home, but it looked like that wouldn't happen anytime soon.

"Fine." I laid aside the batter I'd prepared for raspberry cheesecake cookies and removed my apron. "Let's go now and get it over with."

Josie looked at me in amazement. "You want to leave Dodie in charge again? On one of our busiest weeks of the year?"

"Well, I'm not about to let you go alone, especially after the incident at Nicoletta's house last night. Dodie will be okay by herself." I hope.

"Did you call me, girls?" A cheerful voice rang out from the storefront, and a moment later, Dodie Albert appeared in the doorway. She was a sweet-tempered woman in her sixties, with short silver hair sticking out from underneath her pink Sally's Samples ballcap. Although congenial and always anxious to help, it often wasn't the type of help we needed. Dodie had an unfortunate habit of making more work for us. Clumsy came to her as easily as dead bodies did to me.

"At your service." She grinned and stuck out her hand. It connected with the metal bowl of batter I'd just prepared, sending it up into the air and then crashing down on the floor. Pieces of the dough splattered Dodie in the face. She stumbled for a second, but I caught her before she collided with the cookie racks standing next to the oven.

I helped to steady her. "Are you okay?"

Dodie looked a bit dazed as she adjusted her apron. "All good. Not a scratch on me."

"I wish I could say the same for the cookie batter," Josie muttered under her breath.

With Dodie's help, we began picking up the mess. She grabbed a broom from the back corner, and I ducked as she swung it around in the air. "I'm so sorry about that, girls. What did you want to see me about?"

Josie raised an eyebrow, as if daring me to go through with it. "Yeah, what did you want to see her about, Sal?"

Fortunately, it was late morning and not a busy time. With a little luck, we'd be back within the hour. "We were wondering if you'd watch the shop for a little while. Josie and I need to run an errand. No need to do any baking. As a matter of fact, why don't you just stay in the storefront until we get back?"

Dodie's face brightened at my words. "Oh, of course! Now you two just go ahead and do whatever you need to. I'll take good care of the place."

"It's like giving someone permission to start a fire," Josie remarked as we got into my car. "Thankfully the bakery is doing well, but Sal, we may have to cut our losses at some point."

I placed the car in drive, and we moved down the alley.

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