Smoked (The Alex Harris Mystery Series) by Macko Elaine

Author:Macko, Elaine [Macko, Elaine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: An Alex Harris Mystery
Publisher: ElaineMackoBooks
Published: 2013-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Five

It seemed at every turn I gathered more suspects. I went from who would want to kill sweet Mrs. Kravec to who didn’t want their turn at doing the woman in.

After I left the station I checked in with John. He had another couple of hours of work . I felt restless and knew what I needed. An hour later I hopped off the treadmill at the Indian Cove Health Club and felt much better. I spent another twenty minutes doing some weights and then cleaned up and went home.

After all the pasta and meatballs I had eaten yesterday, my body needed a healthy salad. Marla had given me a handful of Swiss chard and some kale. I knew I should love these two vitamin-packed greens and the chard was okay, but NASA could use kale leaves as panels on their space craft. The things were just so darned tough. But my body really did need some food with substance so I chopped both of them up and made a salad large enough so that John could have some when he got home. I took a sizable bowl over to the kitchen table and sorted through the mail I had finally remembered to get out of the box. Now that I paid most everything online, I didn’t get a whole lot of mail, but sometimes it’s nice to just sit and look through all the junk just to see what great bargains I’m missing. The drug store in the shopping center where Ellery and I had walked the other night was having a two-for-one sale on vitamins and the craft store was having a sale on fleece. I popped a piece of tomato in my mouth contemplating whether I needed vitamins and what could I possibly do with a bunch of fleece when I heard a tap on the glass in my back door.

“Ellery, come on in,” I said. “I was just having a salad. Can I get you a bowl?”

“No. I’m waiting for my dad and then we’re going out to dinner.”

“So he hasn’t been arrested?” I asked as she sat down across from me.

Ellery sighed. “Not yet. But they keep questioning him. He didn’t do it. I know he didn’t. Are you any closer to finding out anything?” Ellery looked at me with pleading eyes.

“Well, as a matter of fact—“

“You found the killer?” Ellery shouted.

I winced at her high-pitched scream. “Not exactly. But there are definitely some other people who might, I said might, have a reason. I’m looking into it. But I’m glad you’re here. I need to ask you a few things.”

“Sure. Whatever I can do.” Ellery pulled her legs up and wrapped her arms around her knees.

“Did your mother ever say anything about her blog?”

“Like what?”

“Well, did she ever express any remorse over the stuff she wrote or did she happen to tell you she planned to give it up?”

Ellery shook her head of dark curls. “No and no. I never asked her, though.

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