Poppy Harmon and the Hung Jury by Lee Hollis

Author:Lee Hollis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2019-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

Poppy’s apartment had belonged to Heather before her incarceration, so when she brought her back to it after her release, Poppy suddenly felt displaced. In preparation for Heather’s return, Poppy had moved out of the master bedroom, where she had been sleeping the last thirteen months, and set up her belongings in the smaller guest room so Heather could have her old room back. She wasn’t quite sure how all of this was going to work, but she figured they would make it up as they went along. Poppy’s late husband, Chester, had left her in a lot of debt, some of which she was still paying off, and she had lost her home to boot because of his gambling and financial mismanagement, so it had made sense for Poppy to take over Heather’s lease on her much cheaper apartment while she was serving her sentence.

Poppy had spent much of the day restoring the two-bedroom apartment to exactly how Heather had left it so she would feel as if she was coming home to her own place and not her mother’s. Poppy had hoped they could spend Heather’s first night together cooking and drinking wine and making a plan for Heather to get her life back on track again, but it wasn’t meant to be. Heather was lethargic and tired and excused herself to go take a nap. That had been five hours ago. It was now past eleven at night, and Poppy had made herself a sandwich and sat down at her computer to keep herself busy. She realized Heather probably was not going to wake up until the morning, so Poppy used the time to do a little research on Tony Molina’s wife, Tofu.

A Google search brought up pages and pages of press interviews and fan Web sites and endless beauty shots and glamorous red carpet photos from the past thirty years, most of them dating back to before she had married Tony. Poppy assumed that Tony probably was not too keen on his wife working much after they got married. Those Italian superstars could be pretty chauvinistic, possessive, and controlling, which was why Frank Sinatra had divorced Mia Farrow in the 1960s after she refused to quit the

Roman Polanski classic Rosemary’s Baby to spend more time at home with Frank. Sinatra was Tony Molina’s hero so it was more than likely that he modeled his behavior after him.

As Poppy scrolled through the countless articles on Tofu, she happened upon a short People magazine profile from around the time she released her biggest hit song, the one that had been used as the theme song for a James Bond movie. She was skimming the article when something popped out at her. The reporter had asked her if she always knew she wanted to be a star and Tofu answered, “From the time I was a little girl, growing up in Abiline, Texas, I knew I was destined for greater things, and so the day I turned eighteen,

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