Fear Itself by Dan Greenburg

Author:Dan Greenburg [Greenburg, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery
Amazon: B00DCX0X4K
Goodreads: 20622106
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2014-01-21T08:00:00+00:00

After following Nancy Blanchard for only two days, Andy saw his chance. From a block away he saw her enter the A&P. He took his time about getting over there. He picked up a cart in the parking lot and walked it into the store.

The store had been recently redesigned to look rural and rustic. Freestanding displays of produce were now encased in raw wood with knotholes. Baguettes and other breads were now displayed in big straw baskets. The linoleum flooring had been replaced by what looked like wide wooden planks but wasn’t. Practically everything had a little sticker on it that read “Organic.”

At first he thought she’d disappeared. Then he spotted her. She had short, shiny black hair that sort of flipped up at the ends. She had a slim body and was dressed in faded blue jeans and white leather sneakers, the leisure uniform of the free world.

She was scanning aisle three in the daze that people enter when they cruise the aisles of supermarkets. He took down a carton of cake mix, pretended to scrutinize it, then looked up just as she pushed past him.

“Excuse me,” he said, “but would you happen to know how many pints in a quart?”

“Pardon me?” she said, startled.

“I’m just reading the label on this box of cake mix and trying to figure out what I need,” he said. “But I can’t recall if a pint is half a quart or half a glass, or for that matter how much a half pint is. Do you remember any of that stuff or are you just as mixed up as I am?”

“A pint is half a quart. No, wait,” she said, then giggled. “I’m sorry, I don’t know either.”

“I’m so embarrassed,” he said. “Four years of high school, four years of college, four years of graduate school, and I don’t even know how many pints in a quart. How am I ever going to learn to bake a cake?”

“You’re baking a cake?” she asked.

“Yeah, assuming I can ever figure out how many pints in a quart,” he said. “Well, thanks anyway.”

“Yeah,” she said. “Well, good luck with the cake.”

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