Antiques Chop (A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery)
“got the following response from me: “You’re going to have to be more specific—we have plenty of those in our little burg lately.”
“Yeah,” Jake said to me, “ever since you came back.”
He was in the backseat of the Buick, with me behind the wheel, and Mother riding shotgun.
“That’s not very nice!” I said to my son, glancing at him in the rearview mirror. “Anyway, that’s just a coincidence.”
“Yes, dear,” Mother said to Jake. “National crime statistics have finally caught up with our sleepy little ...town.”
Or had they? Maybe me moving back in with Mother had created a kind of perfect psychoneurotic storm, making me a lightning rod for the deaths that had happened here in the past few years.
Silly as that might sound, at the very least I’d been a catalyst for Mother’s tenacious sleuthing—and an unwilling catalyst, at that. Mostly unwilling, anyway. Now and then I did get caught up in Mother’s Murder, She Wrote melodramatics....
But all I wanted right now was a nice, quiet week with my son, free from talk of murder and mayhem—was that too much to ask?MoreLess
“Yeah,” Jake said to me, “ever since you came back.”
He was in the backseat of the Buick, with me behind the wheel, and Mother riding shotgun.
“That’s not very nice!” I said to my son, glancing at him in the rearview mirror. “Anyway, that’s just a coincidence.”
“Yes, dear,” Mother said to Jake. “National crime statistics have finally caught up with our sleepy little ...town.”
Or had they? Maybe me moving back in with Mother had created a kind of perfect psychoneurotic storm, making me a lightning rod for the deaths that had happened here in the past few years.
Silly as that might sound, at the very least I’d been a catalyst for Mother’s tenacious sleuthing—and an unwilling catalyst, at that. Mostly unwilling, anyway. Now and then I did get caught up in Mother’s Murder, She Wrote melodramatics....
But all I wanted right now was a nice, quiet week with my son, free from talk of murder and mayhem—was that too much to ask?MoreLess
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