Killer Honeymoon by Traci Tyne Hilton

Author:Traci Tyne Hilton [Hilton, Traci Tyne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 26229054
Publisher: Proverbs 31 House
Published: 2014-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Flora and Rocky took Taylor to the medical examiner’s office to see if she could be of use with identifying the body, and Jane went to see Daisy Smith.

A girl Jane guessed to be about ten answered the door.

“Good afternoon.” Jane smiled at the kid.

“Mo-om!” the girl hollered. “It’s another reporter.” She stepped aside.

Jane went in without contradicting the girl.

A woman whose unlined face and shiny hair looked too young to be the mom of teenagers met Jane in the front room. Her hair was in a messy bun on the back of her head. She smiled, but not with her eyes. “How can I help you?”

“I’m not actually a reporter.” Jane handed over one of the Senior Corp of Retired Investigator cards. “My husband and I—” Jane blushed “—are staying at our house here in town. The house where the body was found.”

“I see.” Daisy sat down. She stared at the card. “Somebody hid their murder victim in a detective’s shed. That’s bad planning.” She looked up and smiled again, but there was no light in her eyes at all. Not even a glimmer of appreciation at the irony.

Jane sat across from her. “We’ve been asking around, and our questions led us to you. Not as the killer, of course, but maybe as next of kin for the deceased.”

Daisy swallowed, hard. “What do you mean?”

“The timing is such that he might be one of your nephews who were visiting. No other young men are missing, not even in nearby towns.”

She pressed her hand to her mouth but didn’t speak.

“If it was your nephew…you’re our best bet at a DNA identification. Is that right?”

She nodded slowly. “But it’s not one of the boys.” She took a deep breath and straightened her shoulders.

“Can you be sure?”

“Skye texted two weeks ago.” Daisy folded her hands together and squeezed her fingers until her knuckles were white. “Said she had reception and a bit of battery. Told me she loved me. Said everything was cool.” Daisy exhaled. “If there had been a crisis, she would have used our code word. You know how some families have those. She would have used it, but she didn’t. No one is dead.”

“What about their friend Ryder?”

“If someone had died…if they were in danger, Skye would have let me know.”

“Where do you think they went?”

She pressed her pink lips together.

Jane proceeded with a quiet, careful voice. “Do you think they went back to Colorado City?”

Daisy stood up. “Get on back outside, Mia.” She pushed her daughter towards the door.

The girl ran out without protest.

Daisy walked to the brick fireplace and rested her hand on it. “Not Colorado City.”

She didn’t deny the implication. Jane relaxed a little. They were getting somewhere.

“We weren’t from that group. A different group.” She turned to Jane with wide, pale eyes, still afraid. “Kind of like them, but different leaders, different rules. Up in the hills, by ourselves.”

“Do you think your nephews went back?”

“They couldn’t go back.”

Lost boys.

“They all just wanted an adventure. Just a bunch of kids.

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