Deadly Sins (Riley Sullivan Mystery Book 1) by Stacy M. Jones

Author:Stacy M. Jones [Jones, Stacy M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stacy M. Jones
Published: 2018-06-02T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 46

AFTER A FEW MORNING ERRANDS, Cooper made his way to Maime’s office. He hoped they were working. It was Veteran’s Day and some places were closed. If they were working, his plan was to sweet talk her coworkers into telling him more than they told Luke when he interviewed them.

Luke said they hadn’t told him much, just that Maime’s work was slacking off and that she left Friday afternoon around three. Everyone in the office assumed Maime took her car, but when they closed shop around five in the afternoon, her SUV was still there. Her vehicle had not been recovered so the assumption was Maime went back to work sometime after five.

Maime worked for a pharmaceutical company that had its headquarters in North Carolina. Maime shared an office in West Little Rock with three female coworkers. It wasn’t a large building, only one floor, but it looked like they were the only occupants. The other office spaces were dark and no names were on the glass doors.

“Good mornin’, ladies,” Cooper said, grinning as he strode through the front door of their office. The office was one big open space with four desks, some filing cabinets and a room to the side Cooper guessed was used for meetings. Three of the four desks were occupied. The fourth he guessed was Maime’s. All of the women looked exactly like Cooper imagined female pharmaceuticals reps looked – blonde, big-breasted and wearing short skirts. Cooper’s kind of woman.

“Mornin,” the three of them chimed in unison.

“I was hoping you’d be able to help me out. I’m looking to find some information about your coworker Maime Brewer. I know y’all talked to the police, but I thought maybe there were some other things you could share with me.”

“You a cop?” asked Linelle.

“No, ma’am. A private investigator,” Cooper explained with a smile.

The ladies returned the smile, shared a look with one another and over the course of the next ninety minutes spilled everything they knew. By the time Cooper left, he’d had two cups of coffee, got a little dirt on Maime and even landed the only single woman’s phone number.

The women explained that Maime had grown quite erratic in the weeks leading up to her disappearance. Her work had slacked off, her sales plummeted, and she was about to be fired. Some suspected a drug problem, although they couldn’t be sure what. The drug samples she had access to at the office were mostly women’s drugs, treating everything from prenatal care to menopause symptoms. There was nothing she sold that would really be the kind of prescription pill she’d get hooked on.

They also shared that Maime took late lunches at least a few times a week with a man they didn’t know. He would often pull up right to the front office door. She would leave with him, and as the women said, return later in the day looking “like that cat that ate the canary.”

The more they described him, Cooper thought it sounded a lot like Dean.

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