Chocolate Cream Cupcake & Murder (A Dana Sweet Cozy Mystery Book 3) Read Online Free PDF

of honey.
    “You mean you loved his money . You probably had him bumped off,” Junior said.
    “All right knock it off now,” Troy interjected.
    “I will not knock it off, detective.” Junior was seething now.
    The whole room felt like a boiling pot of mixed up soup with a few nuts thrown in.
    “You should investigate that gold-digger,” Junior continued.
    “Fool,” Goldie shot back quickly. “You three should be the one who should be under investigation. He’s no good to me dead , you brats. We’re not even married yet!”
    And you never will be now, Dana thought to herself.
    “Ah-ha!” Junior pointed his finger at Goldie. “So you were marrying him for his money.”
    “I…I want my lawyer!” she said, storming out of the room.
    “Why don’t you call him from the beauty parlor. That’s the only place you’ve been going these days. There and shopping, spending our daddy’s money since you came into the picture. You never gave a hoot about our pops.”
    “Neither did you three,” Molly said, her hands on her hips. “I’m not going to stand by and watch as you guilty as sin kids try to get away with murder. You never cared about your pappy.”
    Pappy?
    This whole situation was getting weird by the minute in increments of two parts insanity and one part craziness.
    “I’m going to ask you one more time to be quiet, or I’ll take you all down to the station to be questioned.” Troy’s voice was firmer and the tiredness was in his voice.
    Dana could feel the heat climb in the kitchen. They said if you couldn’t stand the heat then get out of the kitchen…
    But Dana couldn’t very well leave the kitchen now. Besides, the curiosity inside her was bubbling up like a home-made beef stew, cooking up a storm of ideas inside her brain. She was desperate to know what in the Sam’s fortune was going on in here. Which one of them was really guilty? If any of them.
    Dana needed to help Detective Troy find out who cancelled poor Mr. Renaldo like a bad check.
     
     

Chapter 6
     
    “Well, that sure was odd, wasn’t it, cuz?” Katie said to Dana later at the Cozy Cupcakes Café. The whole town seemed to be buzzing.
    The café had never been more packed in her recent memory as long as she could remember. Ordinarily, Dana would be on top of the world, but given the unfortunate circumstances of the events earlier today, how could she feel anything other than helpless, furious and saddened.
    The music played over the speakers and the sound of chatter and murmuring, knifes and forks scraping plates and the aroma of freshly brewed coffee mixed with heavenly baked cupcakes filled the atmosphere.
    “I know,” Dana agreed as she placed the topped high with whipped cream cupcakes in the display—adding some spoons on the side. The Cozy Cupcakes Café was known for its cupcakes that were eaten with a spoon, as well as for the fortune-cookie like messages they came with.
    A sick feeling came over Dana as she realized that poor Mr. Renaldo was eating one of her cupcakes but then something else struck her. Where on earth was the spoon? 
    The line up was long and went right to the front door from the counter, and Dana and Katie worked hard to serve the customers while saying very little about the case.
    “Isn't it awful what happened to poor Mr. Renaldo?” A customer said to Dana.
    “It was absolutely awful.”
    “Don't you mean rich Mr. Renaldo?” Gerdie-Sue said to the customer with an arched brow. Dana was surprised to see her back so soon. Gerdie-Sue stood behind the woman in the line. Perhaps Gerdie Sue came back for some more cupcakes for her Bridge club or perhaps, she was just nosing around try to get more juice for her gossip juice mill she had running in Berry Cove.
    She just had to keep the juice flowing all the time, didn’t she?
    “You mean his kids will be rich,” another woman said.
    “But what about his fiancée?”
    “Ladies, please. Don’t you think we should be discussing other things?