Hometown Detective. Jennifer Morey
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Название: Hometown Detective
Автор: Jennifer Morey
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Короткие любовные романы
Серия: Cold Case Detectives
isbn: 9781474079020
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“I remember when she committed suicide.” Hudson didn’t seem to care what Kendra thought of his choice of words. “I ran into her mother a few weeks after.”
“Did you attend her funeral?” Kendra asked. “Her body was transported back here for burial.”
“No. I didn’t know the family very well.”
Melody had slowly begun to emerge from her shock and listened now.
“Did you attend her funeral?” Roman asked Glenn.
Glenn shook his head. “I visited her grave afterward. I had my own private goodbye with her.”
He hadn’t wanted to risk his wife asking too many questions, apparently.
“Were you here in town when she died?” Roman asked.
Glenn had to think a moment. “I didn’t leave town, I know that much. I can’t remember what I was doing when she died.”
“I do,” Melody said. “Hudson and I flew to New York that day to catch a Broadway show. I remember because Hudson told me about running into Kaelyn’s mother when we arrived back home. It struck me because I had never heard of anyone killing themselves before.”
Glenn nodded with recollection. “I do remember that. The day you flew to New York, I had a cold.”
“You were home all day?” Roman asked.
“Yes.”
“Can anyone verify that?”
Glenn frowned. “I can’t remember if I talked with anyone on the phone. Why?”
“Your wife was home all day?” Roman asked.
“I can’t remember.”
Roman abandoned that line of questioning for now. “When is the last time you saw her?”
“When she came to town. Maybe a week before that.”
“What did you talk about?”
“I can’t recall exactly. Nothing unusual. Nothing that would have indicated she intended to kill herself, or that she was in some kind of trouble. I almost told her I wanted to break things off then, but I didn’t.”
So, he had had a regular secret encounter with Kaelyn a week before she died. He claimed not to remember much, but did he?
“I think that’s all we need for now.” Roman prepared to leave when Glenn stopped him.
“Why do you doubt it was suicide?” he asked.
“Kaelyn and I were in contact for months before she died,” Kendra said. “I think she was going to try to talk me into moving here, maybe come to Chicago first and then the both of us could move together. Every time she spoke of Chesterville, of moving back here, she lit up. And she lit up even more when she talked about the two of us living close and seeing each other often. She was excited, not the sad woman everyone described to me after her death. If she was sad, her husband is the only one who made her that way.”
“So you think her husband may have killed her?”
“Perhaps. If not him, then someone else,” Kendra said.
“You know for certain she planned to move here?” Glenn asked.
“We discussed it.”
“So she may not have planned to move back here.”
“It was implied. She seemed to be priming me for the suggestion. When she talked about wanting to live in Chesterville again, she did so as though it was a dream to her, as if she was afraid it would never be.”
Glenn fell into thoughtful silence, the menu forgotten.
He seemed genuinely surprised that Kaelyn might have been murdered. Had he tried to hide his affair with her to protect his marriage or did he have other reasons to keep such a secret? He had a weak alibi but appeared to lack motive to murder Kaelyn. Roman wouldn’t tell Kendra any of his yet, though. He’d wait until he ruled out foul play. Or confirmed it.
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