Perjury Proof by Jessica Beck

Author:Jessica Beck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cozy Publishing
Published: 2018-09-17T17:49:43+00:00

Once we were outside, Grace said, “I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for that lunch.”

As we headed to Napoli’s, I said, “Does Beatrice seem like someone willing to wait until Maggie took that poison?”

“She certainly hated her enough,” Grace said.

“That’s clearly true, but when you think about it, she had a pretty hard deadline, by her own admission. If Maggie managed to keep skipping the poisoned pills, she could have inherited her ex-husband’s money before she took the first tainted one.”

“Beatrice said that she’d fight it in court, though,” Grace reminded me. “It’s hard to tell how long it would all drag out before there was a final decision.”

“That’s what she told us, but I can’t imagine her having enough cash reserves for any kind of legal battle.”

“No, neither can I,” Grace said. “But we still can’t mark her off our list. She’s such a good candidate, I just can’t bring myself to do it.”

“Neither can I. I’m not even sure we can put her on the back burner, even if we do have a handful of other suspects who might have been able to take a more leisurely approach to murder than Beatrice could afford to.”

“You’re right about that,” Grace replied.

“I think we need to keep looking, don’t you?”

“Yes, but after lunch, right?” Grace asked with a smile.

“Yes, after lunch,” I agreed. I too was hungry for some of the DeAngelis fine cooking.

“What do we do with these, since no one at Henri’s wanted them?” Grace asked as she tapped the box in my hands.

“We could always give them to the DeAngelis women,” I said. “After all, at least they love my donuts.”

“Suzanne, no one with the least bit of sense would ever turn your treats down,” she said.

That made me feel a little better, but I still didn’t like Beatrice Branch. Whether it was because of her refusal of my treats or the cavalier way she’d dismissed me, I honestly couldn’t say.

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