By Kathleen Ernst
As collections curator for previous global Wisconsin, Chloe Ellefson delights in wasting herself in antiques and folks traditions--and forgetting her messy love lifestyles. yet her peace is destroyed while her ex-boyfriend unexpectedly turns up, by means of a break-in at her buddy Dellyn's ancient house--a capability treasure trove of invaluable antiques. used to be the intruder trying to find the lacking Eagle Diamond, a mythical gemstone unearthed in 1876?
while a grisly homicide happens at the museum grounds, Chloe is extra drawn right into a secret concerning an extraordinary number of Swiss cheese, an almost extinct heirloom flower . . . and undeniable, out of date murderous greed.
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Then he reached for her hand, tugged. ” Clarissa protested, but she laughed. If her husband’s dinner scorched, he’d have no one to blame but himself. ” Chief Naborski asked. ” Roelke followed the chief into his office. It was shift change again. The older man liked to catch up with whomever was coming on duty. He always posed his request as a question, though. Not an order. Chief Naborski dropped into his chair. He refused to purchase anything that swiveled or rolled; he liked chairs he could tip back on two legs, which he did now.
I don’t accept suicide,” he said. Her eyebrows rose. ” She sighed, and sipped her drink again. She looked more sad than she had when Roelke had arrived. Great. Just the effect he’d wanted to have. “I imagine that it always feels wrong when someone so young dies,” she said. “Yeah, but …” He drummed his thumb on the arm of his chair. ” “I don’t know,” he admitted. “But could you maybe sound Dellyn out about Bonnie? I mean, they must have spent a little time together, right? They had to handle things after their parents died.
I’m driving a Cadillac Cimarron,” Bonnie said. “You’ll find my wallet on top of the left front tire. I removed my credit cards, but left my ID. ” Roelke felt the seconds ticking by with frenzied impatience. He stared at Marie, willing her to find a way to stop this. ” “I have a plastic garbage bag with me. ” Roelke closed his eyes. He could feel Skeet quivering in the doorway beside him. ” Marie was clutching a pen so hard that her knuckles were white. ” An audible breath in, out. “I’ll be three hundred paces up the White Oak Trail—” Roelke and Skeet bolted outside.