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she’s drunk. We all heard Kevin trying to quieten her down, but that’s nothing new since their marriage hit rock bottom. Then a little while later they left, followed shortly by Betty and Don.”
    “Well, I think that will be all for now, thank you. I hope you haven’t any plans to leave the country at the moment?”
    “What, do you think I killed her?” Eve asked in disgust.
    “You are an important witness, Miss Masters.”
     Eve looked at him crossly. How dare he tell her what to do? Luckily, she hadn’t any plans to leave Crete, but she would have been very annoyed if she had.
    “Oh, and by the way, don’t go looking for the murderer again, Miss Masters. Remember last time and the time before. You weren’t too keen on staying in the hospital, if I remember rightly. Of course, this time you might not be so lucky.”
    With that Dimitris Kastrinakis turned and walked away quickly, leaving Eve open-mouthed with no time to respond. 
    * * * *
    While all this was going on, David was crouched over his laptop at Eve’s house. After she had stormed out, he had barely typed a word, not being able to get her out of his mind.
    He was aware that Eve had recently become restless and he thought that she had probably said these things out of frustration. He knew she’d come back home eventually and would act all contrite, so why couldn’t he concentrate on his book?
    Deep down, David was scared that Eve would become completely fed up with life on Crete and would move back to England. It would break his heart if she did, knowing how difficult it would be for him to leave the peace and tranquility of Crete to go back to London. He didn’t think he would be able to settle in such a busy city again. Would that be the end of their relationship? 
    David understood that Eve needed more than romance in her life. After all, she’d had a successful and powerful career back in England. She’d given up her job, saying she’d had enough, but had she? She definitely needed something to replace it, but as for her saying she’d had no excitement since the last murder; well David thought that was nonsense. He believed that she’d been kept busy during the past six months and couldn’t understand how she had got so bored.  
    While there hadn’t been any more murders, Eve had managed to get back to England three times since the New Year, one time stopping in Paris to do some shopping and another, continuing on to New York for a few days. She had also been to the Cotswolds with David for his sister’s wedding.
    As well as her trips, Eve had been fully occupied with running her amateur dramatics group which had turned out to be very popular with the ex-pats. Even Greeks came to see her productions and she became very much the centre of attention. Congratulations poured in from all sides.
    However, she was already fed up with the drama group. She had been excited about it when she started in January, thinking it would keep her busy, but that soon wore off when she realized how amateur most of her actors were. Only David was any good and that was because he had previously been a professional actor. However, people had crowded in to see the two shows she had produced and they were both well received. The members of the group were now all looking forward to the third production. The group was taking a break during the hot weather and intended to resume in the autumn. However, Eve wanted to close down the group, but surprisingly for such a self-centered person, she was feeling guilty about letting everyone down. 
    In addition, if she did close the group, her arch enemy, Betty Jones, would probably re-open it with her in charge and that was the last thing Eve wanted.
    From the moment they met, Betty and Eve had taken a dislike to each other and Betty had refused to take part in the drama group, either on stage or in stage-management, even though her husband, Don, had eagerly joined. 
    Betty and Don were in their mid-sixties and had