One Night in the Bayou by Caroline Mickelson

Author:Caroline Mickelson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: funny cozy mystery, humorous mystery, small town mystery, senior slueth
Publisher: J&R Fan Fiction
Published: 2018-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

NO SOONER HAD WE STEPPED into the building than I heard Gertie raising heck.

"Just open the damn door, Carter," Gertie demanded in a voice loud enough to wake the entire town. "If you don't, I'm going to call the mayor."

"Aww, come on, Gertie," we heard Carter respond. "It's the middle of the night. And you know that the only thing scarier than Celia during the day is Celia at night."

"Who cares? She can get her beauty sleep another night. It's not like it's going help her anyway. That woman is so ugly—" Gertie stopped speaking when she saw us. Her eyes lit up as she pointed toward Agent Mayeux. "Ah ha, the cavalry has arrived. Finally. Where in the blue blazes have you two been?"

I glanced up at Agent Mayeux to see how he would respond to Gertie in action. But if I'd expected an outward display of surprise or any other emotion, I was mistaken.

I hurried to Gertie's side. "How's Aunt Ida Belle?"

"How would I know? Celia's pet deputy won't let me in to see her." She winked at me.

Good heavens, she was enjoying this. I stared at her in wonder. In even the most awkward and uncomfortable of situations, she managed to find fun. I didn't know whether to be horrified or inspired by her reaction to life. What I did know was that I craved a moment alone with my Aunt Ida Belle. She may lack Gertie's joie de vivre but there was something steady about her that I really wanted to lean on about now.

"Where's LeBlanc?" Agent Mayeux stood behind me. His voice rang with impatience.

Gertie threw her hands up in the air. "Hiding, I wouldn't doubt."

The door to Carter's office opened and he stepped out into the hallway. "I heard that." He greeted us with a nod as he stepped around us. "Let me just lock the front door so we're alone."

We waited in silence for him to return. I wouldn't have blamed him if he'd decided to lock the door with himself on the outside. Locking up my Aunt Ida Belle couldn't have been easy, and listening to Gertie wail had to be sheer misery. Poor Carter.

No. Poor Cat. She was what I needed to focus my attention on. The rest of us were working a plan. She deserved vengeance. I'm not going to pretend that I was over the horror of seeing her body in the morgue. Her death was a tragedy that would haunt me for the rest of my life, this I didn't doubt. But now that the first wave of tears had passed, something hardened in my heart. I was angry. Vigilante angry.

Carter came back around the corner, a grim look on his face. "I don't know how much time we have before words starts to get out that Ida Belle was arrested. It's going to be a zoo out there in short order."

Gertie nodded her agreement, but his words made no sense to me.

"But it's the middle of the night," I protested.

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