Ordered Outrage (Hawk's Place Cozy Mysteries Book 8) by Patti Benning

Author:Patti Benning [Benning, Patti]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summer Prescott Books
Published: 2021-06-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Hannah stared at the notebook in front of her, trying to figure out what to do next. She was worried that this escalation wouldn’t stop, and whatever happened at the next business the robber struck would be even worse than what happened to George, if such a thing was possible.

She remembered Mrs. Eldridge’s words and swallowed. This did seem dangerous, but she didn’t think she had enough evidence to go to the police. If this was a wild goose chase, she didn’t want to waste their time. For all she knew, they already knew all of this. It wasn’t as though they had to share their information with her.

After a few minutes, she got an idea of what she wanted to do next, but she needed to make a call to the detective in charge of George’s case. She found his card in her wallet and dialed his number, not wanting to put it off. When he answered, she asked him if it was all right for her to return to the restaurant and make sure the appliances that needed to be on were on and the ones that needed to be off were off. He told her she was free to take care of any business she had there, but asked her not to reopen until after the weekend at the earliest, in case they needed to return to look for any more evidence in the case. She was fine with that. She still wasn’t ready to reopen the restaurant, anyway; she just wanted to poke around.

She also didn’t want to go alone, so she called Ben and explained what she wanted to do. It took her a while to tell him about the robberies, and even though she didn’t know exactly what she thought she might find at the restaurant, she had a feeling she might find something.

“All right,” he said with his usual good nature. “I’ll be free by eight, if that works for you.”

“How about closer to ten?” Hannah asked. “I want it to be late enough that no one will be around to see us.”

He sounded a bit more skeptical when he replied, but thankfully he still agreed to go with her. She thanked him and ended the call, then sat back down to pour over all of the information she had gathered, once more. One way or another, she was determined to help figure out what had happened to George and to make sure it didn’t happen to anyone else.

By the time Ben picked her up that night, she was dressed head to toe in black. She had drawn the line at a ski mask, partially because she didn’t own one, but other than that she thought she looked rather like a cat burglar. Ben gave her an appraising look as she got into the car.

“You did get permission from the police for this, right? Because, I know it’s your restaurant, but I still don’t know how I’d feel about breaking into it.”

“Of course,” she said.

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