She Waits by Kate Sweeney

Author:Kate Sweeney [Sweeney, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Lesbian, mystery, Lesbians, Thrillers, Detective and Mystery Stories
ISBN: 9781933113401
Google: jtsKPQAACAAJ
Amazon: 1933113405
Publisher: Intaglio Publications
Published: 2006-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

We found Hannah at a picnic table with Doc, another older couple, and Steve. Hannah saw us and waved. “Where’s Margaret?” she asked.

“With Allison,” I replied.

“Ugh,” she groaned and I laughed. “Kate, I want to you to meet Tom and Lily Caldwell.”

I reached over and shook hands. Tom looked like Steve with white hair. “Mr. Caldwell, the resemblance to your son is striking.”

“That’s what everybody says. I don’t see it though. Please, it’s Tom and Lily.”

I sat down next to Hannah.

“So, Hannah tells us you’re an accomplished photographer. That sounds fascinating,” Lily said.

After a few minutes of idle chatter about my job, the conversation went to Hannah and Lily. Tom tapped me on the shoulder.

“So, I understand it’s been pretty dicey around here,” Tom said. He looked at the bandage on my forehead.

I instinctively reached up to it. “Well, it’s been interesting.” I told him I read the report and filled him in on all that had happened as Maggie joined the group and sat next to me. Allison sat by Mac and Teri.

“So, what have you done with the jewelry?” Tom asked.

“It’s back at the house in a plastic bag,” I said and looked at Maggie. “I want to talk to Tom about your mother. I don’t want you to get upset,” I whispered to her. I was dying to talk to Tom.

“I’d like to hear,” Maggie said. “I never heard exactly what happened. I think I need to hear this.” She swallowed with difficulty.

Tom busied himself with his mug of beer. “So, you read the report?”

“Yes, I did. No evidence was ever found, no clues no weapon, no murderer. Sounds like a typical murder in Chicago,” I said.

“It may be typical for a big city but not in Cedar Lake and not while I was sheriff.” He looked at Maggie and me. “I’m an organized person, Kate. I put the top back on the toothpaste. I straighten pictures. I like to have things in their place. So when a citizen in my town gets brutally murdered, especially someone I know and admire, then nothing is in its place. We never found anything to go on. However, we never closed the case. And now in light of what you found, I’m given renewed hope of finding the murderer.” He continued sipping his beer. “Steve tells me your father was a Chicago cop.”

“Yes, he was for thirty years. He was a good, honest man.”

“Steve seems to think you have his genes. He told me what had happened. What’s your slant on this, Kate?” he asked.

“Okay, if I’m a robber, I’m a sneak by nature. I would come up from behind my victim and, I’m sorry about this, Maggie, but if I’m going to stab somebody, I want it to be a surprise so there’s no struggling. So, I come from behind.” I shook my head, ran my fingers through my hair and thought for a moment. “Tom, according to the police report, Miranda was stabbed from the front—she had to see her attacker.

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