Murder & the Movie Star by Dianne Harman

Author:Dianne Harman [Harman, Dianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cozy, zMaC
Goodreads: 34937398
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2017-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

The parking lot of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was almost full when Kelly and Mike arrived and they had a hard time finding a place to park. Kelly didn’t know if that was a bad thing or a good thing. On one hand, she hoped everyone had come to hear Mike give a speech, but a small little voice in the back of her head said maybe it was because of Jacquie Morton’s death and what Mike’s opponent, Rich Monroe, was probably going to have to say about it.

They walked into the building and were immediately greeted by a distinguished looking older man wearing a white uniform shirt, a cap, and American flag shoulder patches. “Sheriff Reynolds, all of us here at the VFW are looking forward to hearing from you. My name’s Scott Nichols, and I’m the Post Commander.” He shook Mike’s hand and turned to Kelly. “You must be Mrs. Reynolds. Thank you for coming tonight.”

“Thanks for having us,” Mike said. “Where would you like us to sit?”

“Sheriff, you’ll be up on the stage with Rich Monroe. I’ll be in between both of you, and I’ll introduce you. Mrs. Reynolds, I reserved a seat for you in the front row. I trust that’s all right.”

“That’s fine, thank you,” she said.

“Sheriff, Mrs. Reynolds, I’d like to introduce you to some of our members before we get started. I expect Chief Monroe to be here shortly, and we’ll get started as soon as he arrives. As you may have noticed, a number of our members are a little older and don’t like to stay up too late, so we try to start our meetings promptly.”

The next twenty minutes were spent in introductions, shaking hands, and what’s commonly called in politics, ‘working the room.’ They heard a commotion at the door and saw Chief Monroe enter with two of his uniformed deputies. Scott Nichols walked over to the chief, greeted him, then walked back to where Mike was standing. “Chief Monroe is here. Let’s get started. You can sit in the chair on the right side of the stage.”

“Good luck, sweetheart,” Kelly said to Mike as he turned and walked up the steps to the stage. She took her seat and watched Chief Monroe walk up on the stage and shake Mike’s hand.

“Please, everyone, take a seat,” the Post Commander said. “We’re about to hear from the two candidates in the upcoming election for Beaver County Sheriff. When they’ve finished giving their talks, we’ll have our usual business meeting, but I didn’t want to be the one responsible for these lawmen being tired tomorrow. Who knows how many bad guys they’ll have to catch, and I didn’t want to be the one responsible for either of them missing a bad guy.” Everyone laughed.

The Post Commander introduced Chief Monroe who stood up and walked over to the microphone. “Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak to you. I won’t bore you with my accomplishments or those of my department.

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