Thin Crust Killers: Pizza Mystery #7 (The Pizza Mysteries) by Chris Cavender

Author:Chris Cavender
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw, epub
Published: 2014-12-17T23:00:00+00:00

Maddy was waiting for me by the door.

The second I walked in, she asked, “What was that all about?”

“I didn’t think you wanted to know,” I said. “Otherwise, you would have stayed right beside me.”

“I was just joking around, Eleanor. You know how I am.”

“Fine. You had your joke, but I’m still not telling you what Trent wanted.”

“It probably wasn’t all that important anyway,” Maddy said as she started flipping chairs over from the tabletops and tucking them underneath.

“That’s it, try to weasel it out of me with reverse psychology.”

I went into the kitchen and checked the clock. Less than two minutes later, Maddy came back. I actually had to give her credit. She’d held out ninety seconds longer than I thought she could.

“Are you ready to tell me yet, or am I going to have to stage a walkout until you do? A work stoppage could cripple the business, you know.”

Her smile took the sting out of her threat, but I’d played it long enough. “Actually, Trent’s request was tied into last night.”

“The bloody menu? Did he confess to doing it?”

“Of course not,” I said. “I’m talking about Steve’s little visit to my house. Evidently I wasn’t the only one he told about his plans to blow the lid off some kind of scandal in town. He was supposed to meet Trent this morning, but he stood him up.”

“Do you think he’s all right?”

“Steve? The man’s made of Teflon. Nothing ever sticks to him. He’s got more lives than a box full of cats.”

Maddy frowned at me. “Why would anyone put a cat in a box, let alone more than one? How would you go about it, even if you had a good reason, though I can’t imagine what that could possibly be? It just doesn’t make sense.”

“Don’t take everything I say so seriously. It’s just an expression,” I said, my patience starting to wear thin.

“That’s odd. I’ve never heard it before,” she said a little truculently.

“That doesn’t mean it’s not an expression.”

“If you ask my opinion, it’s never going to catch on.”

“Fine, no boxes full of cats any more. Does that make you happy?”

“I don’t care one way or the other,” she said, “but I’m willing to bet that the cats will be overjoyed with the news.”

I threw a clean dishrag at her, then I said, “If we’re done with our sister stand-up act, let’s open the pizzeria. What do you say?”

She glanced at the clock and we both saw that it was actually two minutes past noon. “I’d say it’s long overdue.”

As she headed out front to unlock the door, I started getting things ready for my first order of the day. As I did, I started thinking about what Trent had said. It wasn’t all that odd for Steve to miss an appointment, so there was no reason to worry about him.

If that were true, though, why did I have a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach whenever I thought about him? It could have simply been because I’d refused his request the night before.

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