Jam Up and Jelly Fright by Donna Walo Clancy

Author:Donna Walo Clancy [Clancy, Donna Walo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781090941862
Publisher: DWC Publishing
Published: 2019-03-21T22:00:00+00:00

9

As Jen opened her mouth to tell Tabby her story, Doc Holden rapped on the open door. Standing in the door were Doc and Sheriff Puckett waiting to be told they could enter. Jen waved them in.

“Tabby, I’m glad you’re here. You need to hear this as well as Jen. Where is Bea?” the sheriff asked.

“She went to get coffee with Greg. They should be back any minute now,” Jen answered.

“You are looking much better, young lady, I have to say,” the sheriff said with a smile. “How are you feeling?”

“Much better, thank you,” Jen said with a smile. “Have you found something? Do you know why I was so sick?”

“Yes, we have,” Doc answered. “Do you want to wait until your mother returns before we discuss this?”

“No, I would rather my mom not hear the details. She’s already frazzled over this whole mess as it is,” Jen stated.

“You would rather I not hear what?” Bea asked, entering the room in time to hear her daughter’s last comment. “Jen, I need to know what is going on as it is the only way I can put this behind me.”

“Are you sure, Mom?”

“Yes, I am. Fire away with any information you have,” Bea insisted.

“Sheriff, why don’t you start,” Doc Holden suggested.

“After you were successfully removed from your apartment and Alex was murdered that same day, we took the body and fingerprinted it at the morgue. We got a hit in AFIS immediately. Alex Keyes was really Alexander “Poison Man” Martinelli. He was a paid hit man for the Peletroni Mob out of Boston,” he started.

“He was a wanted criminal, a hit man?” Jen asked, shocked. “He seemed so nice.”

“Hitman was just one of his jobs. He also had an interesting side hobby,” Sheriff Puckett confirmed. “He liked to collect wives. He would marry them and slowly poison them to collect insurance money and whatever else he could get from the marriage.”

Jen stopped smiling. She turned pale white and looked like she was going to faint.

“Why would he bother with my Jen?” Bea asked. “They weren’t married, so what would he get?”

“We were married…secretly,” Jen whispered. “As I got weaker, he started to physically abuse me, and he threatened to hurt my mom if I didn’t marry him. He said he couldn’t run the business properly if he wasn’t my husband and his name wasn’t listed on all paperwork. I was too weak to fight him or get away, so I gave in to protect my mom.”

Bea started crying. Greg guided her in the direction of a chair and helped her to sit down. He stood next to her with his hand on her shoulder for reassurance.

“What did you say the mob family name was?” Tabby asked.

“Peletroni,” the sheriff stated. “Why?”

“Isabella mentioned that exact name this morning when she left my house. I thought she was just upset and made a mistake not saying Pelton,” Tabby explained. “I don’t think it was a mistake; I think it was a slip-up on her part.

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