Peach Cobbler Poison (The Drunken Pie Cafe Cozy Mystery Book 1) by Diana DuMont

Author:Diana DuMont [DuMont, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Several hours later, Molly, Scott and I all sat inside the dimly lit Drunken Pie Café. I kept the front door locked and the lights low in hopes that no one would think I was open. I didn’t have to worry too much about that, though. It was fairly late in the evening by this point, so the activity on Main Street was mostly dying down. Sunshine Springs wasn’t much of a nightlife town, and the few bars and restaurants that catered to those who liked to stay out a bit later were all on the opposite side of the small downtown area. Besides that, it had started to rain. This was quite unusual for wine country in the middle of the summer, and many of the Sunshine Springs residents were hiding out at home tonight.

That was just fine by me. I didn’t want to be bothered, and the rain fit my mood. I had a lot to figure out, and so far I hadn’t had much luck. Before Scott and Molly arrived, I’d separated the papers into as organized of piles as I could manage. One pile held what looked like accounting statements from the winery, and another pile had accounting statements from the city. There were also hundreds of emails printed out. I was assuming the emails were mostly to and from the same person, but it was impossible to tell because the email addresses were all blacked out. I skimmed a few of the messages, and they seemed to be between a City Council member and someone outside the Council. This supported the idea that there was a scandal going on at the Sunshine Springs Winery, but nothing directly mentioned the winery. Not only that, but many of the emails that I did take time to read before Scott and Molly arrived appeared to be relatively benign.

But I figured there must be something good in there somewhere. Otherwise, why would Todd have been carrying them around? It just might take a while to get to the good stuff unless we were lucky. I put all of the emails in one pile, and figured we’d have to start going through them and hope for the best.

In another pile, I put all of the photographs. These must have been photos that Todd had taken during his brief stay in Sunshine Springs. I wasn’t sure why he’d printed them all out. Nothing looked particularly out of the ordinary. There were photographs of Josie and Caitlin about town, and Todd had taken a few photos of them in the lobby of the hotel where they’d been staying. A few more photos showed them having breakfast at the Morning Brew Café, and then most of the other photos were of the winery.

It seemed Todd had documented every square inch of the place. Some of the photos that he’d taken of the grapevines were actually quite good. I chuckled, thinking that Theo should buy these from Todd to use in the winery’s marketing.

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