I grabbed my coat from the coat tree by the kitchen door. “I should be going, then.”
“Don’t be too long. I know everyone in the group is looking forward to seeing you,” she said in a teasing voice.
This time I rolled my eyes to her face so there was no mistaking it. Grandma Daisy’s bell-chime laugh rang through the empty shop, and Faulkner joined in on the chuckle fest. Her comment about the group wanting to see me was much more pointed than it sounded. She’d implied—not so subtlety, might I add—Chief of Village Police David Rainwater wanted to see me.
The truth was, I was looking forward to seeing him too.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Isabella Alan is the national bestselling author of the Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries, including Murder, Plainly Read; Murder, Served Simply; Murder, Simply Stitched; and Murder, Plain and Simple. An academic librarian for a small college in Ohio, she grew up visiting the state’s Amish country with her family. As Amanda Flower, she is the author of the Agatha Award–nominated Maid of Murder as well as the Magical Bookshop Mysteries, including Crime and Poetry.
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