By Patricia Sprinkle
With grown-up youngsters and a husband regularly at the street, Katharine Murray's nest will be empty if it were not for her Aunt Lucy—until the aged lady dies. Now Katharine's saddled along with her Aunt's worldly belongings—mostly knickknacks destined for the dumpster. yet there is a worthwhile Celtic necklace one of the dross—and a diary written in German, neither of which Katharine's ever visible prior to. decided to determine the place those gadgets got here from, Katharine unwittingly discovers a department of her genealogy she by no means knew existed—namely Aunt Lucy's brother Carter, murdered greater than fifty years in the past after a mysterious journey to Austria. And while Lucy's artifacts are stolen, and the most suspect turns up useless, Katharine realizes she needs to clear up a housebreaking and unsolved homicides separated via a half-century . . . prior to greater than her kinfolk secrets and techniques turn out useless and buried.
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They chatted lightly while Dr. Flo gathered up a red canvas tote and a black shoulder bag. Finally she said, “Well, I’d better be getting home. ” As she walked from the room, her shoes made soft slap-slaps against the floor. When Katharine found the Everanes census listing, she saw that family members in the household included Walter, fifteen, Carter, thirteen, and Lucille, eleven. All three were students. So by the time of Walter’s wedding Carter would Death on the Famil y Tree 49 have been—Katharine used her pencil to do the math— twenty-two.
Sara Claire was as haughty and aristocratic at twentytwo as she had been at eighty. Lucy, a bridesmaid, looked scrawny and miserable in a long straight dress that bared her bony shoulders. Among the groomsmen Katharine saw one man who looked a lot like her father, but it couldn’t have been, since her parents hadn’t met until they were forty. Next to him stood a tall handsome man with wide shoulders, a well-shaped nose, and—could that be Dutch’s bullet head? He wore the same short crew cut, but Katharine would never have imagined he’d ever been that thin.
She spoke sharply before she remembered she was not alone. Her cheeks grew hot and she darted a glance 46 Patricia Sprinkle at the woman on the other machine. What must she be thinking? At the same moment she looked Katharine’s way. “Why, Katharine Murray! ” Katharine’s face broke into a smile. “Dr. Flo! ” A slim brown hand came up to pat the short shining curls. “It’s my new look. ” For thirty years, until she’d retired a few years before, Dr. Florence Gadney had taught business at Spelman College.