Silence for a few beats. “Are you sure he’s dead?”
“Positive.”
“I hope he isn’t hanging from a noose.”
“No, I think he fell from the sky.”
“His parachute caught in the tree?”
“No parachute.”
He groaned. “How high up is he?”
“About fifteen feet, but you’ll probably need Fire Rescue and a CSU.”
“What makes you think he was murdered?”
“His cement overshoes were my first clue, and the bloody ring around his neck looks like a garotte injury.”
A sharp intake of breath on his end was followed by, “Do you recognize him?”
I choked out the words, “It’s Chad Townsend. We were friends in prep school.”
“No way. He’s fifteen feet above me.”
“Okay. Which tree?”
“The one with the buzzards circling it.”
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Life, Love, & Laughter: 50 Short Stories
About the Author
S.L. Menear is a retired airline pilot. US Airways hired Sharon in 1980 as their first woman pilot, bypassing the flight engineer position. The men in her new-hire class gave her the nickname, Bombshell. She flew Boeing 727s and 737s, DC-9s, and BAC 1-11 airliners and was promoted to captain in her seventh year.
Before her pilot career, Sharon worked as a water-sports model and then traveled the world as a flight attendant with Pan American World Airways.
Jettine Jorgensen Mysteries will continue with Book 2 – Dropped Dead.
Sharon also co-wrote Life, Love, & Laughter: 50 Short Stories, with her mother, D.M. (Dorothy) Littlefield. They also co-wrote a standalone cozy mystery, Sniffers Agency-The Nose Knows and two children’s novels, Journey into the Land of the Wingless Giants and Enchanted.
Sharon’s leisure activities included scuba diving, powered paragliding, snow skiing, surfing, horseback riding, aerobatic flying, sailing, and driving sports cars and motorcycles.
Her beloved Timber-shepherds, Pratt and Whitney, were her faithful companions for fourteen years, and they produced eight darling puppies. When she lived in Texas, Sharon enjoyed riding her beautiful black and white paint stallion, Chief, who kept her mother’s mares happy, fathering several adorable foals.
Retired now, Sharon lives and writes on an island in South Florida. She is an active member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, and Florida Writers Association.
Sharon can be contacted at…
www.slmenear.com