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    Officer Bobby nodded and made notes on his computer as I spoke, and when I was finished he glanced at his screen for a minute before turning back to me. “Anne, is there anything else you can think of that might help? For example, do you know of anyone who might have had reason to hurt Ms. Keilson?”
    I hesitated. “I…I’m not sure. I know of a couple of people who she was having trouble with, but I don’t want to accuse them of something they might not have done.”
    “But they might well have done it,” he replied. “Don’t worry, whatever you tell us is confidential.”
    “All right,” I said. “Zara was having a lot of trouble with her daughter Mia. They had a huge fight the other day on the street, and Zara threatened to spend all of Mia’s inheritance on herself rather than helping Mia out financially anymore.”
    “Okay,” he said, jotting that down. “Is that it?”
    I shook my head. “No. Zara was also recently having problems with an ex-employee of hers, Amy McNamara. The other day, I was out shopping and I actually heard Amy threaten Zara. She said something about ‘getting her back for what she’d done’. My friend Kaye heard the whole thing too.”
    Officer Bobby nodded slowly. “I see. Anything else?”
    “No.”
    “Well, this has all been very helpful,” he said. “Thanks for coming in, Anne.”
    I stood up and then turned back. “Bobby…you don’t think Mia or Amy could have really done this, do you? I mean…I know it looks bad, but they’re both so young; not much older than Rosie was when she…well, you know what she did. Surely we couldn’t have more than one psychotic young lady on the loose in such a small town.”
    He shrugged. “It’s early days, Anne. We have no idea who the killer is as of yet. But let me tell you, people will always surprise you. Remember how shocked we all were over Rosie?”
    “Yes, I suppose you’re right.”
    “Also,” he added. “Forgive me if this comes across as sexist, because I really don’t mean it to, but most of the time, poisoning suggests a female killer. Women tend to like to remove themselves from the scene that way, rather than being right there and shooting or stabbing a person.”
    “I see. So it’s likely that Amy or Mia did do it then?”
    “I can’t say for sure, other than that we do suspect a woman committed this crime,” he said. “Like I said, it’s early days in the investigation. Now, please don’t mention anything we’ve spoken of today to anyone else. The last thing we need is some sort of witch-hunt.”
    I gave him a tight smile and left to find Kaye, Tori, Chris and Daniel already outside and waiting for me.
    “Good God,” Daniel said. “I can’t believe the woman was murdered! As if this town didn’t go through enough last year with the Frobisher murder.”
    “Did you tell them about Amy and Mia?” Kaye asked, looking at me.
    “I mentioned it, yes. I feel bad, but it could help with the investigation.”
    “I told them too,” she replied before narrowing her eyes and looking back at the police station. “Then again, I don’t know how much good it will do. Remember how they bumbled up the last case and arrested the wrong man?”
    Chris arched an eyebrow. “Oh, I don’t think I’ll forget that anytime soon.”
    “Well, maybe we should help them out like we tried to last time,” Kaye continued. “I’m not saying we should get completely involved and try to take over the investigation, but I’m sure they could use our help.”
    “Yeah, I think that might be a good idea,” I said slowly. Anything we could do to help reveal Zara’s killer would certainly make us all feel a lot better. Kaye and I had always loved reading murder mystery books and discussing them, and while we’d never dreamed that we would be thrust into two murder investigations within the space of a year, here we were. I didn’t exactly like the idea of being involved in something that hit so close to home,