Death Mate: A SeaBreeze Island Murder Club Mystery Book 3 (SeaBreeze Island Murder Mystery Club) by L. C. Richards

Author:L. C. Richards [Richards, L. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 62

Look at monitor magazines?

Being a woman of a certain age, Maud was still unused to the shorthand of texting. She rebelled at the obfuscations caused by lack of punctuation and bad grammar. But it finally dawned on her that Regan wanted her to look at the security feed at the view that showed the magazine wall. There were two computer monitors on Maud’s aircraft carrier-sized desk, one for work, which was currently on, and the other showed all the new security camera feeds. That one Maud normally kept off. She found it distracting. But she turned on the security monitor and all the feeds showed up on the screen. There were eight cameras, hence eight little pictures on the monitor laid out in a horizontal four-by-two pattern. It took Maud a moment to find the feed that showed the magazine wall, but she finally did. She clicked on that picture, and the four-by-two grid disappeared, and the one magazine feed filled the monitor’s screen.

Maud immediately saw what had alarmed Regan. She picked up her mobile device and called. Regan answered on the first ring. “The thin one with the dirty blond hair and the wrinkled oxford shirt?” Maud asked.

“Yep,” Regan said succinctly.

The monitor showed four people near the magazine wall—a mother and her two children, ages probably around ten or twelve, and then the man in question. The security cameras were all located in the bookstore’s ceiling, and, because of the angle, it was difficult to see how tall the man was. But Maud knew every inch of Sand Puppies by heart and she could tell by the shelving in front of the man that he was short to medium height. He was also too thin to be healthy unless he was just a super-thin person. There was something wrong with his clothing. Maud couldn’t put her finger on the issue, but in her gut, she felt it. He wore a beat-up pair of what used to be expensive running shoes, a pair of khaki pants, and the oxford shirt. The collar was wrong in that it was folded in a funny way. The man looked like he’d slept in his car.

Regan was still on the phone. “Should we call Arnie?” she asked. She was talking about Sheriff Arnie.

“What about that deputy you were dating?” Maud asked. “He’s usually down around this part of the county, isn’t he?” Maud couldn’t remember the man’s name.

“Brix?” Regan asked. The way she said it made Maud wonder if Regan and he had had a falling out.

“Whatever his name was,” Maud said. As she spoke, she watched the monitor. The man in question disappeared off the screen, so Maud clicked back to the four-by-two grid. She found him again, this time in the new gaming section. There was no one in the picture with him. She watched the man pick up a few books and leaf through them. Besides chess and other gaming books, like about Go and backgammon, the gaming section had

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