Solitude Death, An Amish Country Murder Mystery by Sandy McKee

Author:Sandy McKee [McKee, Sandy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

I spent the rest of the day tending to my mother, playing with Toby and working on my finances. I’d managed to save quite a bit and had a small retirement, but realized that I was going to need to eventually do something else to fund my travel, books and antiques hobby.

By four o’clock, Mom seemed to be doing better. She reminded me that we should get her Jeep inspected and serviced. Even though Mom had reluctantly given up her driver’s license, she wanted to keep her car, insisting that it would be a much better winter car for me than the little red sports car. I called Leonard’s garage, and he said he was open that evening and could take care of it. The garage was about seven miles away, and I told him that I’d just stay with the car until they were done. I thought of a new Sue Grafton mystery that I could curl up and read in peace in the waiting room.

After a light dinner of vegetable soup, I got the Jeep started and headed over to the garage. While it was over ten years old, it was really in pristine shape. It would be safer to drive when the snow came. Leonard said the work would likely take two hours. Leonard asked me if I remembered the time when I was in college and lost the clutch in my VW Beetle. There had been a lice epidemic at the college and I was on my way out of town with some of my pals to buy lice shampoo. No one in the garage wanted to work on the car for fear of being infected. Finally, the baldest guy there did the job. We both shared a good laugh at the memory.

The time went fast. I enjoyed my new book and was glad that the Jeep checked out fine. It was dark by the time I pulled out of the garage. I looked forward to getting home to a hot bath.

It was a dark, cloudy, and foggy night. I enjoyed the winding mountain road while listening to my favorite oldies station. Suddenly some bright headlights were headed straight at me. I swerved quickly to avoid a collision. Then I felt myself falling. Everything went blank.

When I came to, I ached all over. I tried to move my arms and legs to check to see if anything was broken. Fortunately, I had my seat belt on. I didn’t think any bones were broken, but I did seem to have a cut on my forehead that continued to bleed. My chest felt bruised and sore too. I looked around and realized that I’d gone down an embankment and likely rolled over a couple times. The motor was still running and the car was setting upright. I tried to give the Jeep some gas to see if I could get back up on the road. The wheels spun in the tall grass or what looked like a corn field.

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