Quilt-Ridden by Elizabeth Craig

Author:Elizabeth Craig
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Cozy corgi series, Southern mystery, cozy mystery dogs, southern cozy mystery, cozy corgi mystery
Publisher: Elizabeth Spann Craig
Published: 2021-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

THE FARM WAS OUT IN the country, but the stand that Aiden used to sell his crops to the town was fairly centrally-located in a large parking lot downtown. Fortunately, the lot was deserted. Beatrice took Boris out of the car and they walked up to Aiden. He was a wiry, rangy man, tall and tanned with a quiet dignity about him. He lifted a hand as Beatrice and Boris approached.

“Hi there,” he said with a smile. “This isn’t your dog, is it? I thought I remembered you had something a little smaller.”

“You remember something a lot smaller,” said Beatrice. “I’m helping out Meadow and Ramsay and this is their dog, Boris. He’s very poorly-behaved.”

At that point, however, Boris decided to prove Beatrice completely wrong. He politely smiled at Aiden and then rolled over onto his back for a belly rub. After Aiden gave him a gentle rub, Boris rolled back onto his feet again and sat quietly there next to Beatrice.

“Do you mind picking out a few tomatoes for me?” asked Beatrice. “They all look fantastic.”

While Aiden was carefully examining the tomatoes and putting a select few into a grocery bag, he said gruffly, “One of my customers said something a little while ago and I wondered if you knew whether it was true or not.”

“What did they say?”

Aiden put the tomatoes on the scale. “They said that Linton Hoover had died.”

Beatrice nodded. “Yes, and I’m sorry. I know that you grew up together here.”

She watched as a strange look of satisfaction crossed Aiden’s features. “This might be wrong of me to say, but I can’t pretend to be sorry. Linton was my friend, but then he started doing very unfriendly things to hurt me.”

“I’m sorry to hear that,” said Beatrice softly.

Aiden sighed. “I’ve been busy working with the cows the last couple of days and I reckon that’s why I haven’t heard about it. I know news usually travels fast in Dappled Hills.”

Beatrice realized that Heidi clearly hadn’t mentioned anything about Linton’s death to Aiden, but that would hardly be a conversation Heidi would want to initiate.

Aiden told her the price of the tomatoes and Beatrice opened her purse and took out a couple of bills. “The police don’t seem to have leads yet. You did hear it wasn’t a natural death?”

Aiden nodded, a muscle in his head twitching. “That’s what I heard.”

“Do you have any idea who might have done something like that?”

Aiden gave a humorless laugh. “Brett, his brother, might have had something to do with it. Those two never did get along—guess they were too different. Even as kids, they were always carping at each other.”

“Brothers sometimes do, I guess.”

Aiden lifted a brow. “Oh, they do. But this always kind of seemed mean-spirited to me. That’s all I know.” He came around the stand to see Boris, who was acting like a very good boy and Boris closed his eyes happily as Aiden rubbed his head and scratched him behind his ears.

Beatrice cleared her throat and said, “How is Heidi doing? I haven’t seen her at church lately.

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