The Body in the Bathtub by Shéa MacLeod

Author:Shéa MacLeod
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: small town, cozy mystery with gardening, Oregon coast, murder mystery, romance, humor, cozy mystery series
Publisher: Sunwalker Press
Published: 2016-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

CURIOUS BEYOND BELIEF, I did a quick search on my smart phone the minute I climbed in my car. There wasn’t much I found on Voss except his medical credentials, business location, and a copy of his resume on LinkedIn. His brother had far more of a social media presence, which I suppose was to be expected of an undertaker looking for business. So there wasn’t much online, but there were still other ways of doing research.

I pulled out of the parking lot and drove toward the library. I could have walked; it was only a couple blocks over from the doctor’s office, but I was half afraid Voss would key my car or something.

I parked behind the library— out of sight of Voss’s office— and walked around to the front of the building. Sometime in the 1960s, somebody had thought it was a good idea to build a “modern” building for the public library. It was not a good idea. What resulted was, in my opinion, a jarring eyesore in an otherwise picturesque town. Instead of lovely Victorian or turn of the century architecture that peppered the town, the library was a block of cement. It was so ugly it made me cringe.

Inside at least, there were books to sooth the soul. I ignored the flickering overhead fluorescents and headed to the newspaper section. Like most newspapers these days, the local paper was all online. Just plug in a search and voila! But the paper had only jumped online about ten years ago, and they hadn’t caught up to their backlog yet. My best bet was to rummage through the old papers and try to find something on Voss.

According to the sign on the doctor’s door, he’d established his practice fifteen years ago. That left me five years of papers to slog through. I sighed heavily. This could take forever.

“Need help with something?” Moira Renner, one of the librarians, poked her head around the corner and peered at me through horn-rimmed glasses. Her graying dark hair had at one point in the day been pinned neatly on top of her head, but half of it was now tumbling around her shoulders. Her salmon pink cardigan clashed with her skin tone and the colors in her pink and purple floral print dress.

“Hi, Moira. Ah, yeah, I’m doing some research. For my latest book.” Big fat lie. I wrote historical romances, not modern murder mysteries. Although the way things were going, I certainly had enough fodder for the latter. “I was trying to find some information on someone.”

She lifted an iron gray eyebrow. “Whom?”

Oh, look at her with the proper grammar. “Doctor Voss. The online information only goes back ten years. I was hoping to find something in the five years before that.”

The other eyebrow went up. “Anything specific?”

“Naw. Just anything interesting. About his practice or whatnot.”

She snorted. “You want interesting? I’ll give you interesting.” She stalked over to the shelves, peered at the papers for a moment, and yanked a handful down.

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