Murder to Go (The Heights Bed and Breakfast Cozy Mystery Series Book 1) Read Online Free

put our home up as
collateral to expand the restaurant, none of this would have happened.”
    Carolyn
shook her head. “You can’t blame yourself for the restaurant failing. No one
could have foreseen that tourism would slow down. That was going to be a lean
year for the restaurant either way. You know, I was excited you were trying to
make a better life for us.”
    “Better
life?” he shot back. “You trusted me and I let you down. Now I’m a suspect in a
murder case. I had no idea what was going on when the detectives asked me about
Paul Tenboom. Then I realized they were asking me about Porky. I hadn’t thought
about him in years.   He gave my
restaurant a rotten review, but he did that to everyone. After he wrote that
review of my restaurant, I would have loved to see his obituary in the paper,
but that was such a long time ago.”
    “I
know,” Carolyn replied. “Back then, I would have posted a link to his obit on
my blog.”
    Karl
snickered.
    Carolyn
pulled into The Heights parking lot. She and Karl got out of the car, and Karl
started toward the B & B. Carolyn hurried up to him, took him by the hand,
and held him back. “Wait a minute. Talk to me for a minute before you go inside.”
    Karl
frowned. “What do you want to talk about?”
    Carolyn
drew closer to him. “I just want to spend a moment with you before we dive back
into the fray.” She gave him a quick peck on the cheek. “I missed you last
night.”
    Karl
looked away. “We seem to be spending a lot of time apart these days.”
    “I
wish we could spend more time together,” Carolyn remarked. “You work the same
amount here at The Heights that you used to work at the restaurant and my blog
has been taking off.”
    “When
the restaurant was open,” Karl murmured. “We would at least be together. You
were waiting on tables and I was in the kitchen cooking. We saw each other
every day and night. We talked to each other all the time. We don’t do that
anymore.”
    “Yes,
I remember,” Carolyn recalled.“I think you are romanticizing
our time at the restaurant. You would shout at me about dishes that were cooling
on the pass. I would yell at you when you wouldn’t tell me specials that were
86’d. It wasn’t quality time. We didn't get to spend any time, just the two of
us alone, enjoying each other's company.”
    Karl
gazed across the parking lot at the B & B. “Maybe we shouldn’t be staying
here. Maybe we should go somewhere else.”
    “Where
would we go?” Carolyn asked. “They have space for us here.”
    “I
don’t want to depend on anyone,” Karl replied. “But I don’t have a choice. I
can’t support you. We have to take advantage of our daughter and son-in-law's hospitality.”
    “How
many meals did we serve David in the restaurant while he was dating Sarah in
college? I think Sarah stills blames you for putting all that weight on him.” Carolyn
quipped, “We’re family. I don’t want to leave. I like staying here with Sarah.
I thought you felt the same way.”
    “It
doesn’t matter how I feel about it,” Karl returned. “We’re stuck here whether
we want to or not.”
    Without
waiting for her to reply, Karl headed into the B & B. As soon as he got
inside, he started toward the kitchen. “I better get dinner started.”
    “David’s
cooking dinner tonight,” Carolyn told him.
    “Right,”
Karl murmured. He got as far as the service window before David ran out of the
kitchen with an apron tied around his waist. “I’m making dinner tonight, Karl.
You’re taking the night off.”
    Karl
puffed himself up. “Let me take care of dinner. It will only take me a few
minutes to get started.”
    David
waved his hand. “I’m cooking dinner tonight. Go to the apartment and relax,”
David suggested. “You’re a suspect in a murder case, and the guests are
uncomfortable with the idea of you making them food, no matter how good it is.”
    Sarah
approached from the reception desk. “Don’t worry, David. The