“Knowing your brother as we do now, he could very well have cut some kind of deal with Cheryl Bailey to get you out of the picture completely, Bethany. And that would have been easy to do if her sister, the lawyer, was on board. Although we can’t prove that Cheryl’s sister had ill intentions,” the detective said.
“Don’t you just love a happy ending, Detective?” Ettie asked. “Bethany’s safe, she knows who her father was, she’s gotten to know a little about the family, her store is a success, and look at how happy she is.”
Detective Kelly looked at the blissful young couple. “And I hear congratulations are in order?”
“Yes, we’re to be married just before Christmas.”
“That’s lovely. Marriage is good for some. And do you have plans for the money?”
“We do. We’ll buy a house and then I’m going to extend the store.”
“What for? With the money you’re getting you’ll never have to work.”
Elsa-May opened her mouth to speak, but the detective looked at her and said, “I guess you were about to say Idle hands are the devil’s playground?”
“No. I wasn’t going to say anything like that. I don’t know that the devil has a playground. It would likely melt in his lake of fire. I was going to say that doing nothing at all is not what you think it’ll be. It might be good for the first couple of days, and then you’d start looking for things to do.”
“I suppose you’re right. I do like my job, but sometimes I would like the pressure to be off—to know I didn’t have to work. If I had a bucket full of money somewhere, I’d feel much better about life.” Detective Kelly chuckled.
“What about Greg in all this?” Elsa-May asked. “Bethany said he seemed nice.”
“Ian’s son?” the detective asked.
“I don’t think he cared one way or the other about his uncle’s will. He just wanted us to find his father’s killer.”
“I’m glad Creighton wasn’t the killer,” Bethany said.
The detective reminded her, “The man stabbed you. He’s a criminal in my eyes.”
Bethany remained silent and looked down.
“You’re still seeing your brother through rosy glasses, aren’t you?”
Before Bethany could reply, Elsa-May corrected him again. “Half-brother, and we don’t judge.”
“There is one who judges, and it’s not any of us,” Jabez added.
Detective Kelly looked at all of them. “Snowy and I are outnumbered.” He stroked Snowy, who was startled at the sudden movement and promptly jumped off the detective’s lap and scampered away. He stared after the startled dog. “Maybe it’s just me outnumbered, then.”
Everyone laughed, and Kelly grinned as he reached for what was left of his cake.
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Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
Romans 2:1-3
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The next book in the Ettie Smith Amish Mystery series is:
Amish Baby Mystery
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An abandoned baby boy wrapped in an Amish quilt.
There's a letter in the quilt.
When Ettie and her sister Elsa-May pick up the baby left at their door, a letter falls to the ground.
The letter pleads with them to keep quiet about the infant as his life is in danger.
When the retired Detective Crowley stumbles onto their secret, is it already too late?
Amish Baby Mystery
ETTIE SMITH AMISH MYSTERIES
Book 1 Secrets Come Home
Book 2 Amish Murder
Book 3 Murder in the Amish Bakery
Book 4 Amish Murder Too Close
Book 5 Amish Quilt Shop Mystery
Book 6 Amish Baby Mystery
Book 7 Betrayed
Book 8: Amish False Witness
Book 9: Amish Barn Murders
Book 10 Amish Christmas Mystery
Book 11 Who Killed Uncle Alfie?
Book 12 Lost: Amish Mystery
Book 13 Amish Cover-Up
Book 14 Amish Crossword Murder
Book 15 Old Promises
Book 16 Amish Mystery at Rose Cottage
Book 17 Amish Mystery: Plain Secrets
Book 18 Amish Mystery: Fear Thy Neighbor
Book 19 Amish Winter Murder Mystery
Book 20 Amish Scarecrow Murders
Other books by Samantha Price:
Stand-Alone Christmas novel:
In Time For An Amish Christmas
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AMISH MISFTIS
Book 1 The Amish Girl Who Never Belonged
Book 2 The Amish Spinster
Book 3 The Amish Bishop’s Daughter
Book 4 The Amish Single Mother
Book 5 The Temporary Amish Nanny
Book 6 Jeremiah’s Daughter
Book 7 My Brother’s Keeper
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SEVEN AMISH BACHELORS
Book 1 The Amish Bachelor
Book 2 His Amish Romance
Book 3 Joshua’s Choice
Book 4 Forbidden Amish Romance
Book 5 The Quiet Amish Bachelor
Book 6 The Determined Amish Bachelor
Book 7 Amish Bachelor’s Secret
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EXPECTANT AMISH WIDOWS series.
Book 1 Amish Widow's Hope
Book 2 The Pregnant Amish Widow
Book 3 Amish Widow's Faith
Book 4 Their Son's Amish Baby
Book 5 Amish Widow's Proposal
Book 6 The Pregnant Amish Nanny
Book 7 A Pregnant Widow's Amish Vacation
Book 8 The Amish Firefighter's Widow
Book 9 Amish Widow's Secret
Book 10 The Middle-Aged Amish Widow
Book 11 Amish Widow's Escape
Book 12 Amish Widow's Christmas
Book 13 Amish Widow’s New Hope
Book 14 Amish Widow’s Story
Book 15 Amish Widow’s Decision
Book 16 Amish Widow’s Trust
Book 17 The Amish Potato Farmer’s Widow
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