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Cynthia E. Hurst Mysteries
Category:
Mystery/Suspense
Publisher: Plane View Books
ISBN-10: 1987678117
Type: Fiction
Pages: 220
Copyright: April 7, 2018
ISBN-13: 9781987678116
Price: $2.99 (eBook)
Zukie goes fishing for the solution to a mystery.
The police are chasing a ring of art thieves. The thieves are chasing Zukie Merlino's cousin Lou, who's accidentally interrupted a handover of stolen goods. And Zukie? She's causing chaos as only she can, in between baking lemon meringue pies, thwarting burglaries and trying not to end up as fish food.
Excerpt
The doorbell rang and she went to answer it, seeing Carol through the peephole, Joe balanced on her hip.
“Hi, sweetie,” Zukie said. Joe squealed happily.
“You sure you’re all right having him today?” Carol asked, stepping inside.
“Why wouldn’t I be?”
Carol frowned at her mother. “I thought you might need to take Lou somewhere.”
“He can take himself. What are you talking about?”
“I guess you haven’t looked at the driveway this morning.”
Zukie detoured around Carol and went out onto the front porch. Lou’s Buick sat in its normal place in the driveway, but in somewhat different condition than when he had parked it there. The driver’s side door hung open, and even from the porch, Zukie could see that both the front and back seats had been ripped open, with the filling strewn around and springs visible. Her hand shot up to cover her mouth.
“Holy saints,” she whispered. She went back into the living room, where Lou was tickling Joe’s chin.
“Better call your insurance company,” she told him.
“Why?”
“Go take a look at your car.”
Lou obeyed and came back a minute later, his face contorted in anger.
“Who the hell did that?”
Joe began to cry.
“Now look what you’ve done,” Zukie said. “Jeez, Lou, it’s not like it’s much of a mystery.”
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