Library Lover's Mystery 02-Due or Die by Jenn McKinlay

Author:Jenn McKinlay [Mckinlay, Jenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Book & Bookstore Mysteries
ISBN: 9780425246689
Google: wYmEZwEACAAJ
Amazon: 042524668X
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2012-03-06T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

16

BRIAR CREEK

PUBLIC LIBRARY

It only took Lindsey a second to recognize the hot pink ski suit. She had been skiing with that snowsuit before, and it served as an excellent visual marker against the relentless white of the slopes.

“It’s Beth,” she announced. She expelled a huge sigh of relief and hurried to the front door to let her friend in.

“Excellent,” Nancy said. “I hope she has news.”

Beth came in on a blast of arctic air. It took both her and Lindsey to shut the door against the incoming wind.

As Beth unwrapped her head, she took the cup of coffee Charlie offered with a grateful smile. “Hot coffee? It’s a miracle!”

“Where have you been? Why haven’t you answered your phone? Is your place okay? Where did you get that ride?” Lindsey peppered her with questions.

Beth held up her hand and took a long sip of the hot java. “Okay, I think I can feel my feet again. Let’s see, to start with, I’ve been mostly at home, but I just took a quick tour of town, the battery on my phone is dead, my house is fine, so far, and the snowmobile is my neighbor’s, but he’s too old to ride it so he lent it to me.”

“Is it totally fun?” Charlie asked.

“Totally,” she assured him. They pounded knuckles and Lindsey rolled her eyes. There were times she was pretty sure Beth was a twelve-year-old boy trapped in a thirty-two-year-old woman’s body.

“So, tell us,” Nancy said as she pulled Beth into her apartment and pushed her into a chair by the fire. “What’s it look like out there?”

Beth sobered immediately. “It’s bad. The drifts are already six feet high and getting higher. You can’t even tell what’s buried under them. The waves crested with the high tide, and Jeanette Palmer’s Beachfront Bed and Breakfast took a pounding. I think the only thing that saved her from losing her back porch to the sea was Ian Murphy and Sully spent most of last night hauling in sandbags from the highway department.”

“Is Jeanette okay?” Nancy asked.

“She’s fine,” Beth said. “The B and B was open today for business, and she was out sweeping her front steps when I stopped to check on her. She says this storm is nothing compared to the ones in ’52 and ’78.”

“It’s not over yet,” Nancy said, looking out the large bay window where the snow continued to fall.

“Which reminds me,” Charlie said. “I’m going to get out there and start shoveling before it gets too deep.”

“I’ll just call a snow plow,” Nancy said. “You don’t have to go out in this.”

Beth shook her head. “There isn’t a plow available. They’ve all been called out to do the roads. They’re hoping to get them at least partially dug out before the second half of the blizzard hits.”

“Is the library okay?” Lindsey asked.

Beth smiled at her. “That’s the first place I checked. The drifts are halfway up to the front door, but otherwise the building looks fine.”

Lindsey felt her shoulders lower in relief.

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