KRISTIE KLEWES
Hi – I’m Merry Summerfield, law-abiding book editor, pet-sitter, and unintentional sleuth. I was minding my own business in the main street of Drizzle Bay when I heard screaming from Iona who owns the café. Terrible, terrified screaming. Then little Poppadum from the Mini Mart went into a deafening bark-a-thon beside a gate I’d never noticed, so being the inquisitive (and helpful) person I am, I just had to open it.
Behind it I found – OMG – Iona in her nightgown, and Kathleen Awhina – flat on her back, dressed to the nines, but with the nasty accessory of a big knife buried deep in her ample chest. Euw! Dead as a dodo, but why? Who’d kill a friendly person like her? And with Christmas only a few days away.
DS Bruce Carver and DC Marion Wick are soon hot on the trail, but surely it wasn’t Iona? It certainly wasn’t me. In fact no-one seems the least bit likely, so there’s a mystery for us all. But I just can’t help poking my nose in a little. (Or maybe a little too far…)