gave a thumbs-up and his eyes fluttered closed.
The drive back to Rusty Gun was mostly quiet. Agatha preferred the silence while Heather had always been the chatty one. It had been that way ever since the Cartwright family had moved to town.
“Do you want me to take you home?” she asked. “Those bags under your eyes could hold a milk jug.”
“No,” Agatha said. “I’m not tired. I’m restless. And I don’t want to sit at home by myself remembering what happened.”
“Leave it to me, girl. I’ve got just the thing. We had to miss our spa day at Gloria’s yesterday, but I bet if I ask real nice and pay her double she’ll get us in lickety-split. Besides, she needs the money. She’s a single mom, and her side jobs aren’t real reliable. I guess now that the funeral home is shut down, she’ll have to go back to waiting tables.”
“The funeral home?”
“She does hair and makeup for all the dead people,” Heather said. “She’s real talented. I hardly recognized Mr. Oglesby when I saw him last month. He never looked that good when he was living.”
Heather pulled into the parking lot of Gloria’s Day Spa, but there was only one other car in the lot. The open sign flashed in the window.
“Not much business,” Agatha said.
“She’s been trying to hire more stylists and technicians,” Heather said. “It’s real nice on the inside. As nice as any of the spas I’ve been to in the city. But she works strictly on appointments, and people in Rusty Gun are more of the walk-in crowd. Come on.”
They got out of the car and Agatha pushed the door open to the front of the salon.
“Gloria, your favorite client is here,” Heather said cheerfully. “We want the works.”
“I don’t think she’s here,” Agatha said, looking around the empty salon. Heather was right, it was as nice as any she’d seen. Very high quality, and the water feature behind the front desk was mesmerizing.
“Gloria?” Heather asked again. “You with a client?”
Agatha walked down the hallway where the treatment rooms were, but all the doors were open. The last door on the left was an office, and it was the only one where the door was half open.
Agatha pushed it the rest of the way, but it caught on something. She pushed harder and a bloody hand flopped out onto the carpet.
“Heather,” Agatha said. “I don’t think Gloria is available today.”
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About Liliana Hart
Liliana Hart is a New York Times, USAToday, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of more than sixty titles. After starting her first novel her freshman year of college, she immediately became addicted to writing and knew she’d found what she was meant to do with her life. She has no idea why she majored in music.
Since publishing in June 2011, Liliana has sold more than six-million books. All three of her series have made multiple appearances on the New York Times list.
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Liliana’s writing partner and husband, Scott blends over 25 years of heart-stopping policing Special Operations experience.
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