Where's Hansel and Gretel's Gingerbread House?: A Gabby Grimm Fairy Tale Mystery #2 by Barton Sara M

Author:Barton, Sara M.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fbi, christmas, organized crime, vermont, black forest farm the three bears winery winemaking goats dairy farm female deputy gabby grimm, burlington vt fletcherallen medical center albany ny ptsd
Publisher: Sara M. Barton

Chapter Nine --

“That’s not nice. You shouldn’t talk about my boss that way, Gabby.” I could see Little Miss Sunshine was disappointed in my cynical mindset, as far as her boss was concerned. “He was very good to me when Paul was ill. He let me take a lot of time off with pay.”

“Did he? And never expected anything in return?”

“No. As long as I kept up with the filings, the permits, and the rest of the paperwork, he didn’t care if I worked from home, from the construction site, or from the office.”

“Listen, Nettie. I’ve got to go see Rufus and get this mess straightened out. Just tell me one thing. Did Joe know I was a deputy sheriff?”

“Sure. We often talked about you. I told him all about you and Sam, how you saved the Klarsfeld family from those terrorists.”

“What about your boss? Does Kevin Frist know about me?”

“Oh, heavens no! I don’t discuss that sort of thing with Mr. Frist. He doesn’t have time for that. He’s a very busy man.”

“Okay. I’ll be back later. You can reach me on my cell if you need me.”

“The old one or the new one?”

“The old. By the way,” I said as I got up, “you missed your calling. You’re a genius with gingerbread.”

“Thanks. You should see the architectural models I made for Mr. Frist. They’re even more amazing in cardboard.”

“You make his models?” I was surprised by that bit of news.

“Sure. I used to do all the models for Harvey Construction when I worked there. When Mr. Frist found out, he asked me to do the same for his company.”

That explained why Annette was such an attractive target. No wonder the FBI was all over this.

Rufus was in his office when I got to the Latimer Falls Sheriff’s Department. After Marge buzzed him, she told me to go right in.

“Brief me,” he demanded, sitting behind his massive desk. He waved me into a chair opposite and waited. I obliged, filling him in on all the information I had developed on the case. We talked over a couple of possible scenarios and kicked around a few ideas on how to proceed. We came to a consensus half an hour later, after I outlined a scheme I thought might yield dividends. Rufus agreed.

“Do it, Gabby. Put his feet in the fire, don’t take any crap, and don’t worry about me. I can handle the FBI.”

“Think it will work?” I wondered.

“It’s worth a shot. At the moment, we don’t really have much, do we?”

I had to agree about that. Between the duplicate gingerbread house, the likelihood that I was being tailed by the feds, and the fact that Joe Fortuna was a possible undercover FBI agent who set up my cousin, there was too much confusion clouding our view. We couldn’t afford to sit around waiting for the dust to settle. Better to stir it up and see what surfaced.

I left him as he sat at his desk, making phone calls and cashing in old favors for current information.

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