Excerpt from Death's Charm
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Kenzie was starting to yawn, a sign she had been up for long enough and it was time to head to bed. She and Zachary had been watching an Unsolved Mysteries marathon, challenging themselves to come up with clues, investigative paths, and possible solutions to the various crimes. They skipped over the ones about UFOs, psychic events, or other paranormal mysteries, sticking to the ones about missing persons, murders, finding long-lost relatives, or exploring family history.
But Kenzie was beat. She was past the age when she could party all night long, or even wanted to. After midnight, she was ready to turn off the TV, put their dishes in the dishwasher, and brush her teeth. Her bed was calling.
Zachary noticed her smothering a yawn and raised his brows knowingly. “Last episode?” he suggested.
Kenzie nodded. “Yeah. Sorry about that. I’d love to watch more, but… my body has other ideas.”
Zachary rubbed his thick five o’clock shadow, bristles rasping. “We’d better solve this one, then; wouldn’t want to go to bed on a failure.”
“Well…” Kenzie covered another yawn. “Since the entire Cincinnati police force was not able to solve it in ten years, I think we can be forgiven for not being able to solve it based on a ten-minute summary and reenactment.”
“So, you don’t think that it was—”
Kenzie’s phone began to ring.
Not just the regular ringtone, but the loud, klaxon blare assigned to the police dispatcher that was designed to wake her from even the deepest sleep. Both of them jumped at the sudden loud alarm.
That meant there was a body to deal with, and Kenzie would not be going to sleep for a couple more hours. She rubbed her eyes and sighed before picking up the phone to get the details.
Zachary waited until she was back off the phone before asking, “You want to watch the end of this one before leaving?”
There were another two or three minutes left, and staying that much longer wouldn’t make any difference to either the police or the woman who had been killed, but Kenzie’s attention was no longer on it.
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