title: Honeymoons Can Be Murder: The Sixth Charlie Parker Mystery (Charlie Parker Mysteries)
author:  Connie Shelton 
description: Connie Shelton has written more than two dozen mysteries in the Charlie Parker mystery series and Samantha Sweet series. She has been a contributor to several anthologies, including Chicken Soup For the Writer's Soul. "My husband and I love to do adventures. He flew helicopters for 35 years, a career that I've borrowed from in my Charlie Parker mysteries. We have traveled quite a lot and and I use many of those locations in my books. For relaxation I love art -- painting and drawing can completely consume me. I also really enjoy cooking, with whatever ingredients I find in whatever country we are in at the moment. We walk every day and love watching and photographing wildlife."
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  Old Bones Can Be Murder
  
  
  Charlie Parker Mysteries, Book 18.5
  
  
  A Between-the-Numbers Novella
  
  
    
  
  
  By Connie Shelton
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  It all started with a Chinese fortune cookie
  
  
  message: “A close relative needs your help.” I phoned each of my
  
  
  brothers—both were doing fine. My husband Drake was sitting across
  
  
  the table from me at Ming’s. He didn’t seem in any particular
  
  
  distress, but I asked anyway. A shake of his head as he took the
  
  
  last bite of his shrimp fried rice.
  
  
  “These things are dumb,” I said, wadding up
  
  
  the scrap of paper and adding it to our trash pile of throwaway
  
  
  chopsticks.
  
  
  We went for a drive, the scenic route through
  
  
  Albuquerque’s north valley, went home and got naked together, since
  
  
  it had been a few days. It wasn’t until I went to the kitchen later
  
  
  in the evening, with a hungry spaniel at my heels, that I spotted
  
  
  the blinking light on the answering machine. I swear,