Murder At The Bake Off (Celebrity Mysteries 3) (19 page)

We skulk behind the bushes and trees some more, waiting to see what, if anything, Mitch has found. The boat did look suspicious earlier. This is the mooring area for people staying at, or visiting, a very expensive and luxurious five star hotel. Maybe it’s being presumptuous or classist (if there is such a word) but the kind of people who own boats like that do not usually frequent places like the Roseby. So why is the boat here? It must have some relevance to the case, surely? Is it the place the kidnapper is keeping Poppy? If it is, then Mitch might have already cracked the case, well, a good chunk of it, with no help from Esme or me. I cross my fingers that Mitch hasn’t found the bride-to-be, my hands shoved deep into the pockets of my coat against the chill night air.

It seems like far longer, but in reality it’s only five minutes later when Mitch reappears and jumps from the boat back onto the wooden deck.

It doesn’t look as though he’s found anything. The lights are on in the cabin of the boat he barged onto during our first trip down here, so ignoring that one, he instead heads for the posh boat there was no reply on when Esme checked it out during our previous visit.

We watch, squinting into the half-darkness, the hotel’s floodlights not casting their light too brightly down here. Mitch climbs aboard the boat, checks doors and peers into windows, before dismissing it as a potential kidnapper’s lair and starts to make his way back to the hotel. Right towards where Esme and I are watching from our hiding place in the bushes.

Sugar.

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In The Stars – The Case Of The Celebrity Murder

On Trial – The Case Of The Vanishing Bride

Precious – The Case Of The Murdered Pop Star

Forever Mine –The Case Of The Movie Star Stalker

Past Perfect – The Case Of The Soap Opera Murders

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About the author:

Zanna Mackenzie lives in the UK on the Derbyshire / Leicestershire border with her husband, 3 dogs, a vegetable patch that’s home to far too many weeds and an ever expanding library of books waiting to be read.

Being a freelance writer and editor of business publications is her ‘day job’ but, at every opportunity, she can be found scribbling down notes on scenes for whatever novel she’s working on. She loves it when the characters in her novels take on minds of their own and start deviating from the original plot!

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