Dr. Hallie Malone Cozy Mystery (4 Book Box Set) by Liz Turner

Author:Liz Turner [Turner, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 1

A Perfect

Summer Day

D octor Hallie Malone stood on the back porch of her home for the summer: a beautiful clapboard house, painted light green, with a strong wooden porch on the back side facing the bay. There was a little canoe bobbing in the water where it was tethered to a small dock right behind the house. Hallie was glad she had taken the offer to work for a few months at Cape Cod Hospital—a few weeks ago, the hospital director had come to her usual workplace, Warrenton Hospital, and inquired about any doctors willing to relocate for the summer. Apparently, Cape Cod had been inundated with visitors the past summer, and the county expected just as many this year. Because the population was half the size the other three seasons, the hospital never had enough regular doctors to accommodate the summer influx. After agreeing to a trial period, she had made the two-hour ride the coast of Massachusetts. Hallie had taken one step off the train in Sandwich, breathed in the fresh air, and agreed to stay for a few months, even though it meant leaving her friends in Warrenton hours away. Just as restless as ever, she never seemed to be able to stay in one place for long. And she could do for a summer by the beach!

Hallie had been in Sandwich for two weeks now. She spent many of her off days trekking along the hilly coastline or strolling through the quaint town, most of the buildings built during the three-hundred-year-old original settlement. This evening, she was learning to fish. Having never lived near the coast before, she had jumped at her neighbors’ offer to teach her. Isobel and Teddy Langley were a couple in their mid-fifties, like Hallie. They lived a few homes down, also along the bay. Like Hallie, they were only here for the summer, but they owned their home and returned to it every warm season. The rest of the year, they lived in New York City.

At first, Hallie had been skeptical at the prospect of throwing the fishing line off her very porch—surely there couldn’t be fish swimming all that close to all the homes, could there? But she had been proven wrong quite quickly. The Langley’s had an impressive array of Black Sea Bass, Bluefish, Mackerel, and more.

“How’s it coming with your line?” Isobel asked, as she wrangled a small bass off her hook. The woman was impossibly tan, with jet black hair somehow knotted around itself to stay piled up on her head without a sign of a hairpin. She was a schoolteacher back in New York. Hallie watched as Isobel eyed the size of the fish, then tossed it back into the bay. “Too small, not worth it,” she said when she saw Hallie watching.

Hallie laughed. She gripped the wooden fishing pole they had loaned her and peered into the water for any signs of fish. The sea was clear, except for some patches of spinning sand and the needles of the pine trees above floating in the gentle waves.

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