The Red Shoelace Killer by Susan Sundwall

Author:Susan Sundwall [Sundwall, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Minnie Markwood Mystery
Publisher: Mainly Murder Press
Published: 2012-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

“Let’s sit and get warm.” I turned on the teapot, popped the leftover pasta into the microwave and got the salad out of the fridge.

“This blue truck boogeyman is starting to get to me,” said Joel.

“He came right up on my bumper,” said Rashawna. “You’d just turned into the parking lot, Minnie, so you probably didn’t see him.”

“I’m pretty sure whoever it is not only thinks we know something, but is out to give us a good scare,” I said.

“Yeah, and it’s working,” said Rashawna.

“Do you think we should tell someone now?” asked Joel.

“Let me tell you what happened before I got to work this morning,” I said, ignoring his question.

“Oh, yeah,” said Rashawna, “you kind of clammed up about that when the conference room started to fill up.”

“Hey, I just remembered,” said Joel. “We left all those great doughnuts there.”

Rashawna shot him a warning look. “Go ahead, Minnie, what happened?”

I cleared my throat and directed them to sit down. “Let me get lunch on the table first.” I passed plates and food, and poured water over the teabags in the pot. While the tea steeped we picked up the conversation. “I already told you that I saw someone in a blue truck maybe following me on my way to work. Well, he did, to the doughnut shop, where I wasn’t really going, but he kind of scared me into it.”

“Oh, Minnie,” said Rashawna, her face full of concern. “I wondered why you brought doughnuts to work when we’d already had that big muffin breakfast.”

“I wanted to be where people were. So the guy parked next to me and stared at me from his truck like some demon from hell, then followed me into the shop.”

“Geez, that was bold of him,” said Joel.

“I went right to the counter and complained to the woman at the cash register, too, but by that time he’d turned around and left. He probably heard me mention the police.”

“That right there tells you he’s up to no good,” said Rashawna, viciously crunching a crouton. “He’s a creep and probably a coward, too.”

“Did you recognize him?” asked Joel.

I got up to get the tea mugs. “Not sure. I think I was too flustered to think straight.” I made a vow right there to start thinking more clearly.

“Woulda flustered me, all right,” said Rashawna.

“Okay, we can’t let these guys scare us,” said Joel. “I think we should write down a report of some kind, like all the stuff we know so far. What do you say, Min?”

“That’s a good idea. We’ve got perceptions and real clues that have surfaced over the last few days, and it’s important that we don’t let any of them slip through the cracks.” I got up and went into the bedroom where I retrieved the pad of paper with the notes I’d written out before. When I got back to the table, I saw that Joel and Rashawna had made short work of the leftovers, so I gave the pad to Joel, and we did a little brainstorming.

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