Rum Raisin Revenge: A Jessica James Cozy Mystery (Murder on the Equator Book 2) by Jennifer Joy

Author:Jennifer Joy [Joy, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-20T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

A guy who looked to be in his late twenties or early thirties looked up from his monitor behind the counter.

"Good afternoon. My name's Diego. How can I help you?" he asked.

Yay! He spoke English.

"Hi, I'm Jessica."

"Jake and Adi's visitor from the States?"

"That's me," I said, not knowing whether to be flattered or creeped out that people I didn't know knew who I was.

Diego snickered. "You're not used to small towns, are you? Everyone knows everyone and everything around here. We get a lot of tourists to add some excitement, but all of us locals know what's going on with each other."

"I guess that's nice."

"It is most of the time. What can I get for you?"

I pulled out the paper with the RAM model I needed and placed it on the glass counter. "I have a laptop that I suspect needs a boost in RAM. Do you have this?"

He glanced down at it, raised his finger in the air, and said, "One moment please," as he turned to go down a short aisle of open shelves loaded with various pieces and components.

I leaned against the counter and looked apologetically at Lady, who sat in the shade and whimpered if it was time to leave already. It would be a miracle for anybody to find anything on those disorganized shelves. I saw no labels or strategic order. Screens were next to cell phone chargers, boxes of cell phones next to mouse pads, wireless keyboards next to battery packs. Jessenia would have a fit in a place like this. I could see her trying to crawl over the counter with her labeling gun in an attempt to organize the chaos in my imagination, when in reality, the guy returned with the exact piece I needed before I could finish wondering about his messy shelves.

"Wow, that was fast," I said.

He laughed. "My sister hates it, but I wouldn't know where anything was if she tried to rearrange it."

"My older sister was so good at organizing things, I convinced her to turn it into a business. She's doing rather well with it too."

Diego looked around at his shelves, a look of horror on his face. "She's not going to come visit, too, is she?"

"No, you're safe," I said, laughing.

He looked genuinely relieved. "Good, now, tell me what you need this piece for. It's spendy and I don't want you to waste your money when you might need something else."

I told him about Victor's computer (without naming names as per Agent Vasquez’s instructions) and what Roberto had told me happened when he tried to start it up.

Diego frowned. "This is for Victor, isn’t it?”

I started. I hadn’t said that.

“Small town, remember? Edgar swung by here on his way back from the store with a question about viruses only to return an hour later to tell me that Victor was dead and his computer was missing. He thinks that whatever is on the computer will reveal who the killer is. I agreed with him until now.

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