Mortar and Murder (A Do-It-Yourself Mystery) by Jennie Bentley
By Jennie Bentley
Avery Baker was a brand new York fabric dressmaker, yet inheriting her aunt's outdated Maine cottage has led her down a brand new profession path-home maintenance. discovering a property's hidden power has rewards and challenges-especially whilst a secret surfaces from in the back of the partitions of a centuries-old condominium on an island that has greater than its proportion of lethal secrets and techniques.
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The chief of police is almost six foot four, so it’s quite a production getting his legs in and out of a normal sedan. A truck suits him much better, and when he’s off duty, he drives one, but he was still in uniform and on the job, looking grim and professional. ” He made a face. ” “And here I thought you were coming to arrest me for loitering. I’m waiting for Derek. ” I pointed across the street to where Melissa was once again hanging halfway out of the window, creamy cleavage on display, while Derek had his head tilted back to look up at her.
That made things less complicated. I glanced at Wayne. He nodded. Apparently he was thinking the same thing because some of the stress lines around his eyes disappeared. ” he asked Irina. Gone are the days of the instant Polaroids that you read about in crime novels. Wayne pulled his cell phone from his pocket and manipulated a few buttons before showing it to her. He must have snapped a picture of the body after we left him this morning. Or at the morgue, later. Irina looked at the display. I watched her turn pale, but that could have been just because the girl so very obviously was dead.
Wiggling my butt against the cold wetness, I made myself comfortable on a bench. No sooner had I sat down than a black-and-white police cruiser pulled up to the curb and parked. The door opened and Wayne unfolded his lanky length. The chief of police is almost six foot four, so it’s quite a production getting his legs in and out of a normal sedan. A truck suits him much better, and when he’s off duty, he drives one, but he was still in uniform and on the job, looking grim and professional. ” He made a face.