MARRIAGE IS MURDER an absolutely gripping English cozy mystery (Honey Driver Murder Mysteries Book 11) by JEAN G. GOODHIND

Author:JEAN G. GOODHIND [GOODHIND, JEAN G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Joffe Books cozy mysteries and crime
Published: 2023-03-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

‘What are you doing?’

Lindsey had taken her mother unawares. Honey did her best to look innocent and to hide the catalogue of Italian clothes she’d been referring to. The gorgeous clothes in the catalogue had been modelled by women with lolly stick figures and impeccable manicures.

In a knee jerk response to meeting the gorgeous Carolina, Honey was in the process of trying on clothes.

Carolina had unnerved her with her great height, flashing white teeth and perfect complexion. She was beautiful. No wonder Harold Clinker had shunned the normal rules of his marriage and taken her to bed — the marriage bed that up until then had been sacrosanct to him and his wife.

Honey sighed. Clothes were made for women like Carolina with their long legs and fatless figures. They didn’t always seem made for figures with lumpy bits and the need for firm control undergarments.

The clothes in the catalogue were breathtaking, dramatic and beautifully presented in combinations Honey would never have thought of. Mixing jade with flowery jackets, and coral with purple, she’d done her best. Once satisfied she was close to the style of the model in the magazine, she had then surveyed the final effect in the mirror.

Lindsey had taken her unawares.

‘Do you think I need liposuction?’ Honey asked. She prodded at her hips. ‘Here and here.’

Lindsey picked up the magazine and flicked through it. After perusing a page or two, she shook her head. ‘No. It’s not pounds you need to lose. It’s years.’

‘Thanks a bundle!’

‘So what’s brought this on?’

‘My wedding,’ Honey exclaimed even though it wasn’t really the truth. ‘I have to look good for my wedding.’

The glamorous photos of Carolina Sherise chose that moment to slide out of the centre of the magazine where she’d been using them as bookmarks and onto the floor. Lindsey picked them up.

‘Is this one of the models?’

‘No.’

‘They fell out of the magazine. You know, like a free gift.’

‘No,’ Honey replied, more huffily this time because she couldn’t evade telling the truth. ‘She’s involved in the murder case.’

‘And she’s thin as a stick and gorgeous with it.’

‘No comment. Okay, she’s a real clothes horse. I’m pretty certain she buys her clothes from this catalogue. Italian clothes. Don’t they look drop dead gorgeous?’

‘Of course they do. But only if you’ve got the figure of a bean stick. Oh, and it also helps if you’re about sixteen years old. Do you know that some of the models you see on the catwalk and in these magazines are sometimes thirteen and fourteen?’

‘So! You’re saying I don’t need to worry.’

‘Not at all. You’re fine as you are,’ Lindsey responded giving her mother a hug and a kiss on the cheek. ‘How does she fit into the case?’

Honey picked up the one showing Carolina smiling at the camera. She’d been smiling this morning too. Even once she knew more details of the murder, a smile had never been that far from her luscious lips.

‘She was a friend of the murder victim and an even closer friend of the victim’s husband.

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