Double Dip Dilemma: A Cozy Mystery (Caesars Creek Mystery Series Book 5) Read Online Free PDF

door chimed open and Paige entered. “I could have figured I’d find you here,” she said to Bruce.
     
    She placed a bag on the table in front of him. “Here’s your ink cartridge. I feel like a hole’s been burned through my brain trying to figure out all those stupid numbers.”
     
    Bruce patted her hand. “You’re such a good wife.”
     
    Paige rolled her eyes and then looked at Charlie. “So what brings you across the street Charlie?”
     
    He raised his cup of coffee. “I hear the cops are coming for me.”
     
    Paige took a seat. “What’d you do this time old man?”
     
    Charlie took a sip of his coffee. “I didn’t tell the police some vital information. But they never asked.”
     
    Paige looked up at the rest of us. “What’s this about?”
     
    Before we could answer, Officer Greg Manning walked through the door to the shoppe. He took Charlie towards a back corner table where they could talk without us eavesdropping, despite Stormi’s protests that we already knew what he had to say. However, Greg was attempting to do this one by the book.
     
    Once they were finished, Greg headed back to the police station and Charlie decided he’d had enough excitement for the day and scooted the two blocks to home. After Brandon and Winchester arrived, I closed the shoppe early. That evening I asked Brandon what he thought about the case.
     
    “It does seem odd that she says her steering went out, but Charlie claims to have seen her veer right into the parked vehicle.”
     
    I brought us a couple of glasses of lemonade and set them on the coffee table. Winchester lay at one end of the couch. “Your sister thinks Sandra is lying only to blame her stepson Jeremy to get him out of the house.”
     
    Brandon tilted his head. “You don’t seem to agree?”
     
    I sat down next to him on the couch. “I don’t know. On the one hand, Stormi has a point. But something doesn’t feel right. Not that I trust Sandra Morgan…I barely know her, but like Bruce, I don’t see her putting herself in harm’s way. If she did she’s way more dangerous than we thought.”
     
    Brandon took a sip of his iced tea. “Is there anyone else in the picture that could have done this besides the Morgan woman and her stepson?”
     
    I thought about it for a second. “There’s Jeremy’s mother, but she lives in New York now, although I did hear she’s been in town for the last two weeks visiting.”
     
    “Aha!” Brandon exclaimed. “There’s your culprit.”
     
    I shook my head. “You’re joking right?” 
     
    Brandon shrugged his shoulders. “Why not…the ex-wife comes down on the pretense of a visit and then screws with the car of the viper that whisked her husband away.”
     
    “Yes, but she couldn’t take the chance that one of her sons might be in the car when it crashed. Nope, no way the ex-wife did it.”
     
    Brandon set his tea glass on a coaster. “You have a valid point.”
     
    We decided to drop the subject for the remainder of the evening, but that night my mind kept creeping back to the situation. Something strange was going on, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Perhaps tomorrow would bring to light more information. I wasn’t disappointed.
     
     
     
     
    *****
     
     
     
     
    The next morning I had a large ice cream delivery. I was in the back of the shoppe putting away barrels of sherbet and ice cream into the freezers when Stormi marched in.
     
    “Greg said they couldn’t determine if the steering had been tampered with because there was too much damage to that area.”
     
    “Good morning to you too,” I said lifting the last barrel into the huge freezer. Winchester barked a hello as well.
     
    Stormi ignored both of us. “I told him he better keep an eye on that woman and if he didn’t I would.”
     
    I closed the freezer door. “I’m hoping Sammy stays away from their house.”
     
    Stormi looked at me curiously. “Huh? You agree with me?”
     
    I walked