Was it just me, or did Jill's lack of surprise as I quietly filled her in on finding Geoffrey's body tied to a long-suffering soft sigh of acceptance and, dare I say, expectation? She didn't comment as much, but it wasn't hard to see that Sheriff Wagner's attitude toward my discovery had little to do with sympathy and much more with overwhelm.

Okay, fair enough. She now had two deaths to investigate, both of whom could very easily have been murdered. In fact, I wasn't about ...