Murder in the Mansion by Tegan Maher EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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“WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE bought the whole east side?” I asked, my
gaze shooting to Coralee’s in the mirror in front of the barber’s chair I was
sitting in.
Coralee nodded, her blonde hair never moving. “Just what I said.
Marybeth up and bought most of the east side of Keyhole Lake.”
Marybeth owned Fancy’s, or favorite dive bar. She was a tough woman
with biker’s tattoos and an attitude sharpened from spending two decades
behind a bar slingin’ cheap beer to tight-fisted ingrates. She was also kind
and generous, at least when she wanted to be.
And apparently, she was rich, too.
Belle, the former owner of the Clip N Curl, hovered behind me, her
ghostly form shimmering just a bit. “Now Coralee. Don’t go blowin’ it out
of proportion. She only bought the mansion, Tassels, and a few of the
houses. Oh, and the pawnshop. I think she was only interested in it because
the tattoo parlor is in the same building and she’s been datin’ Kenny, the
artist, for years.”
I furrowed my brows as Coralee ran a comb through my wet hair, then
cringed when she hit a snag.
“Sorry, sweetie,” Coralee said. “I’m tryin’ to be gentle. It’s just … you
have enough hair for three people.”
I waved her off. “Don’t worry about it. I know it’s a hot mess. I’m one of
the most powerful witches in the country, and I can’t even figure out how to
manage it. Now, back to Marybeth. Where’d she get the money to buy all
that? I know Jim’s been in jail for over a year. Is he gettin’ that desperate for
money?”
Back when the powers that be in Keyhole Lake were crooked as a dog’s
leg, Jim Simpson was a slumlord and a sleaze bag. He owned most of the
wrong side of the tracks. In our case, the saying was literal as well as
figurative—the east side of town was separated from the rest of us by a set
of railroad tracks. That’s where Tassel’s, which was the local “gentleman’s
club,” a shady pawn shop, and most of the low-income housing tracts were
located, and he’d ran it with a slime-covered iron fist.
Once the sheriff—the biggest pig of them all—was murdered, Hunter
Woods had taken over and made it his mission to clean up the town. He’d
done a fine job of it, and I’m not just saying that because he’s my boyfriend.
She snorted. “As if. It’s not like he’s ever gettin’ out. Not after they got
him for accessory to Cheri Lynn’s murder.
No, from what I understand, he
lost the house and Tassel’s to the feds once they tallied up how much he
owed them for a decade of taxes. The rest, he’s been tryin’ to sell, but it
went to the county for taxes. Now that everybody’s out from under his
thumb, not a soul was willin’ to get back in bed with him.”
“All of it went to the county?” I hadn’t put much thought into what
would happen to all of his holdings once he was behind bars, but he didn’t
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