As soon as Pryce got distracted by the governor Luci slipped away and joined her aunts. Not because she was worried they’d be upset. She was starting to worry they’d done it. There didn’t seem to be a lot of other viable suspects that she could see.
The time had come to ask, so she did.
“Kill anyone?” Miss Theo looked thoughtful. “I don’t think so, dear. Hermi, Weena, have you killed anyone?”
Hermi smiled. “I’ll admit I thought about killing Reggie when he first showed up here. It was bad enough that he was a Seymour without being an ex-con, but he turned out not so bad.” She brightened. “And the gazebo turned out lovely.”
All eyes turned to Weena. She ruffled indignantly. “What makes you think I’d kill Reggie?”
“Well, you do have a gun, dear,” Miss Theo pointed out.
Luci found herse
