Murder without Mercy by Tegan Maher EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Tegan Maher
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- Genre: Cozy Culinary Mystery
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“wow,” Anna Mae said as she swung an awkward leg over the
picnic table bench and plopped down across from me with a
full plate of barbecue. We were at the annual Keyhole Lake Spring Festival,
and she was so pregnant, she was about to pop.
We dug in and appreciated the food in silence, but I noticed her gaze
kept straying to a booth not too far away.
Finally, she said, “Can you believe it’s been almost two whole years
since our lives converged?” She tilted her head toward the table. “Right
there’s where everything changed forever.”
“For the better,” I said, thinking back to that fateful day as I shoveled a
spoonful of the best baked beans I’d ever eaten into my mouth.
Her husband Hank, one of the meanest people God had ever stretched
hide over, had died pretty as you please from a piece of poisoned pie he’d
pigged down that morning. The man had been a cancer in our town, and
there wasn’t a single person who was worse off for his passing.
The whole incident had freed Anna Mae from a miserable life, I’d met
the man of my dreams, and Keyhole Lake had been shed of a sheriff who
was blackmailing, strong-arming, and bullying nearly everybody in one
way or another.
“I still believe that was one of the best decisions I made in my entire
life,” Cheri Lynn, our friend and the ghost of his murderer, said as she
appeared at the head of the table.
I silently amended my previous thought: there was one person who was
worse off for Hank’s passing. Cheri had been murdered by Hank’s thugs at
almost the same time he’d been dying from her poisoned pie.
She’d been an exotic dancer—we didn’t use the word stripper—at
Tassels, Keyhole’s one and only gentleman’s club. Except there hadn’t been
anything gentlemanly about the place. Hank had taken a criminal amount of
her tips every night as a fee, and he and his goons had treated her worse
than they’d have ever treated a dog. And that was saying something
considering they’d all, down to a man, been the type to kick puppies.
Anyway, Hank had bought the title to her grandmother’s trailer when
Cheri’d fallen behind on taxes, and he’d basically kept her enslaved
because she had nowhere else to go.
So she’d baked him a poison pie.
“I wish it wouldn’t have cost you so much, though, Cheri,” Anna Mae
said, a shadow of sadness flitting across her pixie face.
“Shoot,” Cheri Lynn replied, flapping a hand. Her nails were painted a
bright cherry that matched the red plaid top that she wore tied at the waist.
“Honey, my post-life is oodles better than my breathin’ one was. Look at
me! I’ve got friends and an awesome guy who takes me all over the world.
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