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R.I.P in Reykjavik
by A. R. Kennedy
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GENRE: Cozy Mystery
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BLURB:
Traveling with your
family can be murder.
One
wedding party + one estranged mother = another vacation that goes array for
Naomi.
Naomi
is off on another international vacation. She thinks traveling with her mother
will be the most difficult part of her trip until she meets the rest of the
tour group—a wedding party. It only gets worse when she finds the groom dead.
Everyone’s a suspect on her Icelandic tour of this stunning country.
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EXCERPT THREE:
We
stopped for lunch at a local restaurant. As I sat down at one of the long
benches, my cell phone rang. Charlotte’s face appeared on the screen. I ran
outside to answer it.
“So
I heard you had a late night,” Charlotte said.
“Not
the time.” I looked over my shoulder to make sure no one had followed me out.
“The police think it might not be an accident.”
Charlotte
audibly sighed. “Is that why it was a long night? You were with the police?”
“No,
one of Ösp’s friends is a police officer.”
“You
mean Thor.”
“Please
don’t encourage Mother. His name is Ösp. I don’t want her nickname to stick.”
“Her
nickname? I called him that,” she corrected me. “He looks like Thor.”
I
looked over my shoulder at the restaurant’s entrance. “Looks like? How do you
know what he looks like? Did you cyberstalk him? Check the hotel’s website for
the staff’s pictures?”
“No.
Mom texted me pictures.”
Horrified,
I asked, “And how did she get them?”
“She
followed you to the lobby.”
“Nice.”
“Give
her a break. She was excited. It was like seeing you on your first date.”
“I’ve
been on dates before.” I glanced over my shoulder again for any of the suspects.
“But
Mom didn’t see that. She didn’t see the first dates, the proms. That was all
Dad.”
“Would
you like it if Dad followed you out on a date?”
“I
don’t think Dad cares about those things.”
She
was probably right.
“Anyway,
this police officer I met last night said the autopsy must have shown something
because they hadn’t closed the case yet.”
“So
you turned your date into a fact-finding mission?”
“It
was a happy coincidence.” I thought I heard the door open behind me. I turned
to see no one. It must have been the wind.
“Why
do you keep looking behind you?” Charlotte asked.
“Just
making sure none of the suspects can hear me.”
“Suspects?
You’ve turned your traveling companions into suspects?” She paused before
adding, “Again?”
I
ignored her. “Hurry up, Charlotte. Someone is going to come out looking for me
soon.”
“Fine.
If he drowned, I bet they’d say it was an accident. They’d find water in his
lungs if he drowned. Maybe the autopsy didn’t find water in his lungs. That
doesn’t rule out a cardiac event. That may be hard to prove. Most likely they
are waiting for the toxicology results. That’s going to take a few days.”
I
looked at the restaurant door and wished I could run in for my backpack, so I
could take notes. “And what would that show?”
“Whatever
was in his system. Maybe drugs, poisons.”
“I
forgot to ask. If it was poison, how long before he died would he have to be
poisoned?”
“Depends
on the poison. Probably an hour or two, I guess.”
“Could
you get a poison through TSA?”
“In
something in a bottle with less than three ounces, sure. Could have been a
powder. They could have bought it locally too. Rat poison and antifreeze has
been used in a lot human deaths.”
“Can
you think of anything specific I should look for?”
“You
should look who’s coming up behind you,” she said before hanging up.
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AUTHOR BIO:
A. R. Kennedy lives
in Long Beach, New York, with her two pups. She works hard to put food on the
floor for them. As her favorite T-shirt says, ‘I work so my dog can have a
better life'. She’s an avid traveler. But don’t worry. While she’s away, her
parents dote on their grand-puppies even more than she does. Her writing is a
combination of her love of travel, animals, and the journey we all take to find
ourselves.
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