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I'm sharing snippets from the 4th Alex O'Hara cozy mystery, The Case of the Wedding Wrecker. This snippet picks up after the last time I posted (2 weeks ago).
The lawyer is in with the chief of police, getting answers to why Nick was arrested. The story is written in Alex's POV, so that's her thinking at the beginning of the snippet.
BTW, since this is a work in progress, suggestions are always welcome.
Why had Deputy Dawson
gone into the church to arrest Nick? Why not wait until the wedding was over?
“Did the deputy have to
have cause to arrest Nick?” I asked. “Evidence?”
Pop nodded. “When did the
murder happened?”
We all shook our heads.
“Why Nick?” Me, again.
Nick, a few years older
than Ron, never did anything to him in high school. Deputy Dawg was getting his
revenge on me. That nasty, little creep. I wanted to claw his eyes out of his
head, rip out his hair, knee him—
Hans returned, cutting off
my revenge fantasy. Along with a chair, he brought his father with him. I
thought Pieter should go home and rest. Before I could suggest that, Hans told
us what he’d learned.
“They found the body in an unused cabin, south of the Fair Winds Bed and Breakfast. The wife said Nick had threatened Amerson with physical violence.”
“But that was
weeks ago,” I protested. “After I punched the guy.”
“You punched Amerson?”
Pop glanced at me in admiration. “I assume you had a good reason and didn’t let
your temper get away with you.”
“Po-op.”
“Of course, she
did,” Maria said. “He held me at gunpoint.”
“He what?” Tony
shouted.
Maria told the
Pops how Amerson had stormed into the office looking for me. He’d held her
hostage, waiting for me to return, and how I’d rescued her. “She was so daring.
Frank, you would’ve been proud of her.”
Pop rubbed my
shoulder. “I’m always proud of her.”
Nice job getting all that background in with dialog. Loving this!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Nancy. I tried not to "dump" the backstory, even though the Pops needed to know.
DeleteLots of backstory here, which is great! Enjoyed the snippet!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Veronica.
DeleteAww - the revenge fantasy was just getting warmed up - LOL. Tweeted.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah. Alex is ready to take apart the deputy.
DeleteThere's a complicated series of events leading up to this arrest!
ReplyDeleteI hope that's good. Thanks, Aurora.
DeleteNow we're starting to get the heart of the matter. :-) They are the best family--and so entertaining. This is great writing, Diane. :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Teresa.
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