The Fatality at the Funeral (Getaway Bay Cozy Mystery Series Book 6) by Lee Catherine

Author:Lee, Catherine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

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When they returned to the beach house Adam went to his room, and Addison took Charlie for a walk. She was struggling to process this latest revelation. Hopefully some fresh air would clear her mind.

"Come on, boy," she said to Charlie, tugging his lead to get him moving. He loved his walks, but he insisted on stopping to sniff every tree, telegraph pole, and tuft of grass along the way. Addison wasn't a fan of the stopping and starting. She headed to the far end of Main Beach where there was an off-leash dog area, and took a seat on the sand while Charlie raced around sniffing and playing.

Henry had written a book in which the murder was committed the same way that his brother had just died. As much as she tried, Addison couldn't think up a scenario in which that was a coincidence. An overdose of a combination of two different drugs was quite specific.

So what did that mean? Did Henry kill Jack after all? Had they been wrong to give him the benefit of the doubt? Isaac was right – even nice people are capable of bad things given the right circumstances.

But what circumstances would make a sweet old man like Henry murder his brother? A brother he hadn't spoken to for fifty years.

Addison kept coming back to the feud between the two of them. She wished she knew what it was about. The only person still alive who could answer that was Henry himself, and he wasn't talking.

Addison thought back to the day of Maggie's funeral. Henry had been inside with the family for quite a while. He'd admitted to sharing a drink of whisky with Jack, then said he'd been talking to Emma and Lucas once Jack went to lie down. He came out to tell Addison and Mrs Jones he was ready to leave right before Stuart came looking for the doctor.

Isaac was certain the drugs had been dissolved in Jack's whisky. Henry's fingerprints were on the whisky bottle as well as both his and Jack's glasses, but he'd provided an innocent explanation for that. No other prints were on the bottle or glasses, but that didn't mean someone else couldn't have put the drugs in the glass. It's easy enough to put something into a glass without touching it. Besides, as Isaac said himself, fingerprints can rule someone in but a lack of them can't necessarily rule anyone else out.

But if not Henry, then who? Stuart was the last to see Jack alive. He had motive, according to Adam. He wouldn't be the first person to kill a parent over money.

What about Emma? Or Lucas? They'd been in the house too, either one of them could have slipped the drug into Jack's glass. Henry couldn't remember who else had access to the whisky glass. It would have been easy enough for one of them to give Jack a hug and slip something into his glass at the same time.

But if that was the case, why do it at their mother's funeral?

Addison had no answers.

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