Doors, Danishes & Death by K J Emrick

Author:K J Emrick [Emrick, K J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: South Coast Publishing
Published: 2016-11-14T07:00:00+00:00

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The Widow’s Rest library was just up the street from the retirement home, right next to the post office, so of course Cookie got there first. The red brick building had been built in the 1950s, back when all municipal buildings were built for function instead of aesthetics. It was a one story cube, with two windows on each side and a door at the front and the back. Cookie didn’t spend a whole lot of time here but she had been known to wander through if she wanted to find a book to distract her.

Although, she couldn’t remember the last time she could just sit and read a whole book. There were two in her bedroom above the bakery now, both gripping romance novels, both of them only half finished. She had plenty enough to occupy her time in her real life. This mystery of the dead man in the secret cellar, her upcoming wedding with Jerry, and a business to run. Not to mention a teenage granddaughter to watch over. Yes. Life was full.

The library only had the one employee. It was only open six hours a day, eight on Saturdays, and it was closed on Sundays. Kimberly LaShomb had been the librarian here for years now and she had the place running so smoothly she didn’t need any help with it. She was the quintessential small town librarian, appearing to have walked right off the pages of one of the books that surrounded her on the rows of freestanding metal shelves. Tall and thin, with thick round glasses that amplified her hazel eyes, and a honey blonde ponytail, she favored baggy jeans and loose t-shirts that did nothing to flatter her. Bookish and shy, she was one of those people you knew lived in your town but hardly ever saw.

Even though Jerry had teased her about it, Cookie knew the town had transferred all of their microfilm over to a digital format a few years ago. Much less storage space involved. That meant reading old newspapers was a simple matter of loading a CD into a computer and scrolling through the images. She went up to the long front desk just inside the front door, the lacquered wood surface gleaming under the fluorescent lights, and then waited while Kimberly finished stacking books to be returned to the shelves. When she was done with that she turned to Cookie with a little smile and folded her hands in front of herself. “Hi Cookie. What brings you in here today? I thought you’d be down at the town park for the celebration.”

She looked around at the empty library, and added in a soft voice, “Like everyone else.”

“I should be, I suppose.” Cookie enjoyed the town events, to be sure, but under the circumstances it was more important to be doing what she was doing. “Jerry will be joining me here in a few minutes. We were hoping to get a look at the back issues of the Herald.”

“Sure. We can do that.

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