Elm City Blues: A Private Eye Novel (Tommy Shore Mystery Book 1) by Lawrence Dorfman

Author:Lawrence Dorfman [Dorfman, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781685491185
Publisher: Rough Edges Press
Published: 2022-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SIX

Miriam and I moved to the kitchen. She offered me coffee and I accepted. Of course. It would give her something to do and I would have coffee. I could tell she needed to talk. She busied herself grinding beans, then put the grounds into a barista-worthy Italian coffee maker, only stopping to ask me if I needed cream or sugar. I shook my head and she went to another cupboard and pulled out imported biscotti. When she placed them on the table, I could see she was crying again. I tried to lighten the mood.

“No need for tears, biscotti will be fine.”

She smiled but I could tell she was just humoring me. She finished making the coffee and poured us both a cup. I took a sip and marveled to myself at how delicious it was. Money may not buy happiness but it does buy amazing coffee.

She was quiet for a full five minutes and then the story began pouring out of her. How she had suspected Callen of being a bad guy but didn’t know what to do after James died. How James had gotten so distant to her near the end and how she just needed to feel wanted and loved. How Jack came into her life at that time and how it “just happened”. How after James died and Callen moved in, David got so angry and took up with Marissa. That she actually liked Marissa and wanted David to be happy but Jack never cared for David and only begrudgingly hired David to work for him. She now saw how that was part of his plan. How Jack always seemed to be more interested in Marissa.

I spoke up. “Marissa had an ex-boyfriend that was part of a motorcycle gang that did dirty work for Jack. In exchange, he let them use some of his dormant properties as meth labs. That was what you found in David’s room. He was gathering evidence.”

She looked at me and I could see her considering what I was telling her. She held her emotions in and went on.

“I wanted to go to the police after 3 days when David first went missing. Jack said no. I saw your ad in the Hamden Chronicle and he said okay to my contacting you. I think he thought that nothing would come of it, that you were fly-by-night. No offense.”

I looked at her. “None taken.” I should probably get a real license.

“Anyway, that Friday that I came downtown to see you was difficult for me. I had to put on a face the next day for the fund raiser. I really didn’t have a lot of hope but thought you might find something that might give me some. When you came to the house, it surprised me. I thought then that you might actually find him. Jack was livid you came here. He made threats and sent Ronnie to tail you.”

Ronnie. Must have been the skinny guy. Much better than Ichabod.

I had been nodding my head the entire time, tacitly urging her to tell her side of the story.

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