The Snow White Christmas Cookie
“The door of her two-car garage was open. Her Nissan Pathfinder was parked in one space. The other space was empty. No cars were parked in the driveway.
Des rang the doorbell and stood in the rain listening to the thudding of footsteps as Paulette came to the door. She did not relish this. Delivering bad news to loved ones was the hardest thing she had to do—especially when the circumstances called for her to be less than completely candid. At this stage of the investigation she had to paint Han...k’s death as the suicide that it was meant to look like. She couldn’t let on that they felt sure he’d been murdered. Not when there was a chance, however remote, that Paulette was mixed up in it herself.
When Paulette opened the door she had on the same sweater and slacks that she’d been wearing at the Post Office that morning. “He still hasn’t shown up,” she told Des warily. “Have you heard anything?”
“May I come in, Paulette?”
The house was even drearier on the inside—the ceilings low, the harvest gold shag carpeting worn and dingy.MoreLess
Des rang the doorbell and stood in the rain listening to the thudding of footsteps as Paulette came to the door. She did not relish this. Delivering bad news to loved ones was the hardest thing she had to do—especially when the circumstances called for her to be less than completely candid. At this stage of the investigation she had to paint Han...k’s death as the suicide that it was meant to look like. She couldn’t let on that they felt sure he’d been murdered. Not when there was a chance, however remote, that Paulette was mixed up in it herself.
When Paulette opened the door she had on the same sweater and slacks that she’d been wearing at the Post Office that morning. “He still hasn’t shown up,” she told Des warily. “Have you heard anything?”
“May I come in, Paulette?”
The house was even drearier on the inside—the ceilings low, the harvest gold shag carpeting worn and dingy.MoreLess
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