by Diana Orgain | May 27, 2021 | Cooking up Murder, Sneak Peek, Uncategorized
Did you miss Chapter One? Did you miss Chapter Two? From Murder as Savory as Biscuits Chapter Three Not exactly the way I was hoping our first date would go,” Mona said under her breath, looking anywhere except at the body in the brush. Leo nodded, sighing heavily. He’d just gotten off the phone with dispatch, and they were sending a crime-scene unit. The dog whined, not budging from the man’s side. Yup, this year sure had brought a whole spree of bad luck to the town of Magnolia Falls. Their small community hadn’t seen a murder in ten years, and then an arsonist had burned down Mona’s store, killing someone in the process. Just a few months later, a pair of selfish siblings had murdered two people in a bid to keep themselves from being disinherited, and Leo’s sister Vicki had been caught up in the middle of the investigation. And now he’d found a body in the woods. The dog pushed his nose into the man’s face and whimpered mournfully. “Come here, boy,” Leo said, worried the dog was going to contami‐ nate the crime scene. The dog whined again and limped over to Leo. “Is he hurt?” Mona asked. Leo bent down next to the retriever. Its face was covered in blood. From the dead man, maybe? The dog had been sniffing around him quite a bit. But upon further examination, he found a stab wound in the dog’s front right leg. “He’s been stabbed,” Leo said. “The man?” Mona asked. “The dog.” “You poor thing!” Mona cried, kneeling. The dog’s tail thumped half-heartedly. While Mona...
