Quick Glimpses: The Wedding Soup Murder

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In the second book of the Italian Kitchen Mysteries, The Wedding Soup Murder, Victoria is charged with helping cater a wedding at a fancy country club that overlooks the beach. When the club’s president is found dead the morning after the reception, our sleuth returns to the scene of the crime:

From where I stood, I could see that the walkway to the beach was lined with a mix of natural vegetation and flowers that grow in sandy soil. The path was a good distance from the club, and the beach grass was high enough to obscure anyone walking there, especially at night. I crept along the side of the path, my heart thrumming in my chest. Sneaking around in places I shouldn’t be was the part of detecting I hated (and Sofia thrived on). In the distance was the ocean; in front of me the platform and a steep drop to the beach below. I kept my eyes on the horizon as I approached the wooden structure, trying with little success to look as though I belonged on a crime scene. The railing around the platform would have been waist high for my sixty-five inches; Merriman was taller. But there was no gate across the stairway, and the steps looked narrow. She probably fell forward, straight over the stairs. . .