Macho Man Murder (Merry Wrath Mysteries Book 15) by Leslie Langtry

Author:Leslie Langtry [Langtry, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gemma Halliday Publishing
Published: 2020-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

We saw the girls off, and Kelly offered to meet the girls at the zoo in the morning, giving me the opportunity to investigate. Once she was gone, I dragged Hilly back into the kitchen, where I proceeded to polish off half of a half sheet of cake.

"You're not going to use a plate?" Hilly asked.

"Uh, it's already on a plate." I pointed my fork at her, and she immediately wrenched it from my hand. If I hadn't been quick enough, she would have stabbed me instead of the Formica top of the breakfast bar.

"Sorry," she apologized. "Force of habit. Really, Merry, you should know better than to point a weapon at someone like me."

She was right. People in our line of work were trained to react very quickly to a threat no matter what the weapon was. I once saw Riley take down a guy who pointed finger guns at him.

"What did you want to know?" Hilly went to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of wine. Yay! Wine and cake! She poured us each a glass.

"You've got to be kidding," I said. "You killed Wally at the Cornhole and implicated Ron and Ivan. I want to know what happened."

She shook her head. "I didn't kill Wally."

I didn't expect that. It nearly took me off my cake. Fortunately, I was made of sterner stuff, and I carved out another bite.

"Somebody killed Wally and left him in a dumpster." I avoided pointing at her again. "And it wasn't Ron and Ivan."

"How do you know?" Hilly asked. "I was a witness."

"Because I was with them when it happened. I'm their alibi." I pointed toward my other house—the one I shared with Rex across the street. "And Rex is looking for you for questioning."

"Really?" She picked up a fork and started eating the other end of the cake.

"Yes, really. You were the last one to see him alive. You lied and said you saw Ron and Ivan do it. I want to help you, but I need the truth of what really happened."

Hilly set down her fork. "Why didn't you just say you weren't with Ron and Ivan? It would've been so much easier."

I couldn't answer that. Besides, I wanted to stay on topic. "Why did you kill Wally?"

She shrugged but didn't make eye contact. "I told you, I didn't."

I brought up my fork to point at her but, remembering her attempt on the breakfast bar, lowered it. "You're lying. You lied about what you allegedly witnessed. You're lying about this."

Hilly cocked her head to one side. "Why are you so interested in this? It's no big deal."

"If it's no big deal, why have you avoided my calls and texts?"

Hilly frowned and pulled her phone from her back pocket. "You called me ten times? And texted repeatedly. Are you crazy or what?"

"Yeah, that's right. I'm crazy." But there was a little bit of doubt that crept into my mind.

She shrugged. "I don't know what to tell you."

I felt like I was going to explode—were it not for the cake that needed my attention.

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