Murder in the Shallows: A Violet Carlyle Historical Mystery (The Violet Carlyle Mysteries Book 6) by Beth Byers

Author:Beth Byers [Byers, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Violet didn’t leave the rooms since she had sent for Mr. Tanner and Jack. They were the ones who could help. She started the list of suspects, but she didn’t have enough information to make suspects. She could list off everyone who had been at the reception for Hamilton Barnes, but most of them neither knew nor cared to know a first-year university student who was only invited to the reception because of his father’s money.

Violet rose, giving Victor back his emptied teacup. What could she do for her list? Write down the blonde one? The red-headed one? It was ridiculous. But…

“Kate, would you take notes?”

Violet didn’t even look, knowing Kate would help.

“Mr. Morgan has to be a suspect,” Violet said. “Jeremiah might have worked for him, but we have no idea what the young Mr. Allen truly thought of Morgan.”

Violet heard the scratch of Kate’s pen on the paper.

“Nathan Tanner is my second suspect after Emily Allen.” Violet fiddled with her ring as she paced. It was hot in the rooms. “After this business is finished, we’re going to the sea, yes? We should write to Isolde and Gerald and ask them to meet us in Lyme or Bath or somewhere with sea air to go with the British soil. Seeing that woman Emily lose her brother makes me miss them.”

“I’ll write to them,” Victor told her.

Violet glanced at her twin. “We really should beg them to come home. If Lady Eleanor finds out about our alter ego, having Isolde around to distract her mother might be just the thing.”

“Violet! Brilliant!”

Lila laughed softly as Victor begged more paper from Kate. “Is that Emily really your first suspect?”

Violet shook her head, and then tilted it as she considered more fully. “We have to have faith in Jack. He might have made a mistake in her. But a mistake to the level of loving someone who would kill her brother? It’s too easy. Her presence here feels…convenient for the murderer.”

“But he thought he loved her. Maybe he isn’t as clever as we think,” Victor said doubtfully, but his eyes were glinting with humor, and Violet knew he was teasing her. “Maybe he took so long asking you to marry him because of that? Are you still going to say yes?”

“I haven’t given anyone my answer, twin.”

“She says it like it’s a curse,” Denny laughed.

“I am a pearl of great price,” Victor said, using one of Violet’s favorite quotes.

“You’re going to say yes, Violet,” Lila added, crossing to the collection of bottles that Giles had unpacked. “We already know it.”

“You don’t know anything,” Violet said. “Let’s return to the list at hand, please.”

“So you want to put this poor Mr. Tanner on the list. Why?”

“We return,” Violet answered, “to the beloved innocent, Rachael Morgan. Hamilton mentioned on the train that Jeremiah thought there was a murder; so did Emily when she was trying to blackmail me. It seems unlikely that there was another odd death outside of the young woman’s.”

“This isn’t a novel, Vi,” Victor sighed.

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