Cassie Miles - Christmas Crime in Colorado

After a muscular handshake, the young man said, “I’m Peter Thorne.”

“And you were friends with Sally,” Michael said.

“Hell, I slept with her.”

Beside him, he heard Brooke inhale a sharp gasp. “That’s enough, Peter.”

“I might have been her first score when she got to Aspen,” he said. “Didn’t take Sally long to move on to bigger fish, though. Guys who were famous and rich, like Tyler Hennessey.”

“Never heard of him,” Michael said.

“Man, you are definitely not from Aspen. Tyler’s a superstar. For sure, he’ll be going to the Olympics in snowboarding.”

Michael barely knew what snowboarding was. “So, Sally dumped you for this superstar?”

He gave a hard laugh. “Dropped me like a landslide.”

Though Michael’s first concern was to get Brooke safely to the room, he wanted to find out more from Peter Thorne. “Breaking up is no fun. That must have ticked you off.”

“I’ll tell you this.” He jabbed a drunken forefinger toward Michael’s chest. “Sally ticked off a lot of people. Am I right, Brooke?”

Silently, she nodded.

“I wouldn’t be surprised,” said Peter, “if this wasn’t a suicide. There are lots of guys who wouldn’t mind seeing Sally Klinger dead.”

“We have to go,” Brooke said. “Good night, Peter.”

Michael watched Peter stagger along the sidewalk. There seemed to be no lack of motive for people who wanted to hurt Brooke’s roommate. Boyfriends. Ex-boyfriends. Her husband.

Even Brooke had admitted that she wanted to get Sally out of her life.

He took another look at the auburn-haired beauty who entered the hotel in front of him. Had her anger toward her roommate turned violent? Was it possible that the woman he’d come to protect from a serial killer was a murderer?

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