Brooms & Burglars: Clean Sweep Cozy Mystery Series (Clean Sweep Cozy Mysteries Book 3) by Dianne Harman

Author:Dianne Harman [Harman, Dianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2023-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Jane knew where the newspaper building was, but wanted to make one stop before she went there.

She didn’t know why she cared so much, but the fact that Margaret had accused Greg of being weird when the woman hadn’t bothered to understand him, really got under her skin. So she decided to take a small detour to educate the woman. Maybe the next time Greg went in her store she’d be a little more polite and understanding.

As she turned the corner and pulled up in front of the jewelry store, she noticed a sign in the window. “Be back soon!” it said and showed a time that was thirty minutes ago.

“Guess I’ll have to try again some other time,” Jane sighed. She put her car in reverse and decided to try to find Lucy Park.

The radio was playing and when the song stopped, the DJ came on. Jane ignored it until she heard something that caught her attention.

“Recently our small town has seen its share of crime,” the DJ said. “Two of our local businesses were broken into and vandalized in the past week. Alma City Police are asking residents to let them know if they’ve seen or heard anything in connection with these crimes.

“The first business, Mickey’s Diner, was broken into a week ago Monday. The Book Bar, the following Thursday. Police say they can’t rule out the possibility that this might happen again, so they’re encouraging everyone to double check their locks and ensure they have some form of security in place to prevent future burglaries.”

Jane shook her head and turned the radio down. If the police had turned to the local radio station, she figured that their investigation probably wasn’t going all that well.

She slowed down for a stop light and turned down the radio. A pop country song came on and she had no interest in getting it stuck in her head for the rest of the day. While she waited for the light to turn green, she scanned the radio for another station.

Jane hadn’t realized that she’d pulled up in front of The Book Bar as she waited for the light to change. Her eyes drifted to their store front and then back to Mickey’s Diner. What did they have in common? Was there something she was missing?

She wished she had someone she could talk to about this stuff. Someone who could help her work through her thoughts and put them in order a little better than her just writing them down in a notebook, because that wasn’t helping with this investigation.

The light turned green, and she pushed on the accelerator, leaving those thoughts behind in her exhaust.

A few blocks later, Jane pulled into a parking space on the side of The Alma Times building. It was an old, square, brick building, and the paper had been printed there since The Alma Times started. It published things of interest to the neighboring small towns, so it had quite a lot of subscribers.

The old printing

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