CHapter Seventeen
I chatted with Shawna for a few more minutes about her work in microbiology. She seemed lost and lonely amongst the artistic crowd, so I invited her to meet me for lunch tomorrow at the Quickie Cow. I wanted to ask her some additional questions about Elody, but didn’t want to arouse her suspicions about my motives. Natural curiosity was normal, but a more than casual curiosity about crime made people uneasy.
I walked outside to wait for Juliet. I didn’t want to face the other women after my earlier fiasco. Pulling a paperback out of my purse, I sat down on one of the bright purple Adirondack chairs by the lake shore. A few minutes later, I was immersed in the latest Thyme for Tea cozy mystery. Just as the heroine discovered a dead body in her hall closet, a shadow fell
