Murder in Winnebago County by Christine Husom

Author:Christine Husom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, police procedural, female detective
Publisher: Christine Husom

22: Alvie

The detective and the little sergeant seemed to come out of nowhere, then stood and stared right at her for way too long. Alvie was parked a whole block and a half away. How had they even spotted her? Alvie was dripping wet with sweat thinking they would walk over to her car and talk to her. What if her mustache came unglued from all the perspiration running down her face and fell off? The little sergeant would probably have recognized her, even with the ball cap and sunglasses on. How would she have explained what she was doing sitting in her car, in that neighborhood, at that time of the day, dressed like a man?

As soon as they looked away for a second, she turned her car around and drove away. She went down streets she didn’t know existed in Oak Lea. Not that she could tell much about what they looked like. That was a blur. Her main focus had been watching the rear view mirror to make sure they hadn’t followed her. And getting home before Rebecca woke up. During the summer, Rebecca usually slept in until nine o’clock, which had worked out especially fine that morning when Alvie had a little errand to run.

But then that damn detective had picked her out, and even had the little sergeant look at her. No one, not the nosy neighbors, not the police chief, not the sheriff, not one of them had looked her way until then. Why was that? Speiss should be the next death, but maybe the detective had to be. Or maybe it should be the little sergeant, so Alvie could get to Speiss easier. Speiss never seemed to be alone.

Alvie’s head was practically splitting open. Okay, time to regroup. She’d get home, redraw the three names, and see what that told her. Didn’t they say things happened in threes? Okay, she’d gotten the first three done and just had to figure out what to do about the last three. But the little sergeant made four. If she did Speiss and the little sergeant together, a murder-suicide, that would count as one, wouldn’t it? That deserved very serious consideration.

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