By Cook Or By Crook (A Five-Ingredient Mystery) - Plot & Excerpts
“You rang the bell at Nadia Westrin’s house, got no response, and walked in. You usually barge into people’s homes like that?” Was that the fourth or fifth hostile question he’d asked? Val had lost count. “She asked me to meet her there at seven. When she didn’t come to the door, I thought I should check on her. I’d want someone to do the same for me.” Holtzman’s interviewing technique lacked just one ingredient of a B-movie interrogation—the suspect sweating under hot lights. Val would welcome hot lights in this tiny room without a window but with a vent that blew polar winds at her. She leaned down to rub her knees and calves. Her short skirt suited the heat outdoors, but not the frigid air trapped under the table. Holtzman flipped to a new notebook page. “This morning at the victim’s house, you must have thought about who’d want to murder her. Any names come to mind?” Translation: finger someone else and you can get out of the hot seat, or rather, the cold seat.
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