Bones & Bloodlines by Laurie Alberswerth EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Laurie Alberswerth
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- Genre: Amateur Sleuth Mysteries
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THE JAGGED STONE sliced through the vellum—and Audie’s palm—
with precision to rival a chef’s knife. As red droplets bloomed across the
wax rubbing and blotted out all the pertinent details, Audie remembered
why she left the cooking to her husband.
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“Lovely.” She sat back onto the leaf-covered ground for a whole three
seconds before the earlier rain added insult to injury. Jeans soaked, wax
swallowed by the weeds, she scrambled to her feet. “Oh for Pete’s sake.”
“Did you say something?” Jude materialized from the cornfield that
bordered three sides of the tiny graveyard, carrying an armload of pale
yellow, unshucked ears. His black hair fluttered over his left eye, and he
swung his head to shift it. As usual, it didn’t help.
“Just that Elise Durand continues to be a problem a hundred and sixty
years after her death.” She held out the ripped parchment as he neared.
“Sweetheart, if she’s still bleeding, we have bigger problems than we
knew.”
Audie examined her skin where the gravestone had lodged its
grievances. “No worries. It’s not the specter who’s bleeding.”
He piled the corn at the base of a rotting tree, swatted dust off his jacket,
and lifted her hand. “In my non-professional opinion, it doesn’t appear lifethreatening.”
“We’re in the right spot if it is.”
“Don’t say that. This plot was like trying to track down lost Aztec gold.
I’ll never find my way, alone, on the anniversary of your demise.” He drew
her close, his free arm pointing toward a vision of his bereaved future.
“Picture me, all weepy, bearing flowers…”
She gave him the damaged rubbing and a peck on the cheek, then
wriggled away from his personal stage play. Heading for the backpack
beside Philippe Durand’s older obelisk, she said, “Guess I’d better live. I’d
hate to be the cause of all that drama.” She pulled a tissue from the bag’s
front pocket, closing her fist around it. “New topic: why do you have corn?”
“Peace offering to the skunk. If we feed him tonight, maybe he won’t
circle so close to the fire.”
“I’d say get enough for the raccoons too, but it’s a state park
campground, Jude. Feeding the wildlife is frowned upon.”
“I’m not giving out Budweiser and Pringles. I just don’t want him near
the camper. Or us.”
“The Pringles might work better.”
“That’s not sustenance, woman. Have I taught you nothing?”
She checked her hand, plucked a bandage from behind the tissues, and
covered the cut. Tearing another sheet of paper off the roll, she returned to
Elise. “Is the plan to roast those ears, basted in butter, rosemary, and
garlic?”
He paused. “That’s an idea. Maybe you have been listening.”
In front of the stone again, she stepped into her footprints and peered
down at the fallen foliage.
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