Hugs Bugs and Danger by Lizzie Lewis

Author:Lizzie Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: detective, cozy mystery, button up, abi button, janika jones
Publisher: White Tree Publishing

Chapter 14

Abi has phoned for the police and an ambulance. After all, the building is her property. I’m only the tenant. Danny has also been told and he’s here in case he’s needed. Perhaps he’s afraid one of us is going to be part of a police investigation that could turn nasty.

Should I phone Courtney at Brevelstone CID? Probably not yet. Bruno won’t be connected with the drugs gang that killed Sam, unless of course he’s been shot in mistake for me. But in that case there’d be a broken window, or fourth bullet hole through the top door, and I didn’t see one.

A patrol car arrives, followed closely by an ambulance. It looks like they’re both going to be needed. I have to admit that although I hate Bruno, something inside me feels sorry for the man. I certainly don’t wish him dead. I just wish he’d stayed in Poland.

I go to the first police officer, a young man. I explain what’s happened, and point out that the ambulance is tall enough for someone to get a good look through the office window from the roof, if they park close enough.

The two paramedics who have come out to get their instructions, nod. Looks like I’ve come up with a good idea.

The ambulance is backing up now, and the police have set up a one-way system in the road because it’s rather narrow, and pedestrians have to walk in the road to get past. Not that many of them are walking past. We are certainly attracting a crowd. I blame that on the sirens. There are always plenty of rubberneckers when they hear emergency vehicles stopping. Me as well, I have to admit.

The young police officer is already on the ambulance roof, and calls down to the paramedics, rather too loudly for my liking. “Definitely someone lying on the floor. He doesn’t seem to be moving.”

Abi seems to have taken charge, and she’s explaining to the older officer, a sergeant, that that the door at the top of the stairs is locked. Then she says, “I know you. You’re Police Sergeant Stanley Masters.”

She says it as though there’s some history between them. No doubt I’ll find out later. Abi hands the police sergeant the key. The young male officer is with him, and he passes the key on to him. “Bang on the door and shout that the police are here. If there’s no response, open the door with the key.”

I think the young officer is quite macho. He bounds up the staircase and hammers on the door. “Police! Open up! Open up now!”

I’d expected him to be a bit more restrained than that in the circumstances. Bruno was last seen lying on the floor, but perhaps the young officer knows his business.

We wait. Then we wait a bit more. “Police! Stand back! We’re coming in!”

He’s wrong. He puts the key in the lock and turns it, but the door stays firmly shut. He seems to lose his macho image as he stands there helplessly and calls down the stairs to the police sergeant.

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