Pains and Penalties: (A Geeks and Things Cozy Mystery Novella #1) (Geeks and Things Cozy Mysteries) by Sarah Biglow

Author:Sarah Biglow [Biglow, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah Biglow
Published: 2016-03-22T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

“Where’d you go?” AJ asked as soon as Kalina walked through the front door of the shop. She’d made a stop at home to pick up her laptop. She needed the extra processing power.

“You can’t tell anyone but … we found another body.”

“Oh, crap. Who?”

“I can’t tell you. Not if I want Chris to trust me enough not to leave me out of the loop going forward.” She shut the door and flipped the sign to “Closed”.

“Come on. You told me everything else. Maybe I can help.”

“I appreciate it but this is more serious than we thought. I need you to go home.”

“Please, Aunt K., let me help.”

“I need to do this on my own, kid. Please just go home. I’m sure everything will come out when this is all over. But right now I don’t need a sidekick.”

“You know, the hero kicking the sidekick out never ends well,” he muttered but took the back exit.

She felt a little guilty about booting him out of her research but she knew Jillian would never forgive her if he got mixed up with a killer—well, any more mixed up than he already was. But she would be the good aunt and do everything she could to protect her family. It seemed the killer had a specific target but she couldn’t discount the possibility that he or she might lash out if the police closed in. She pushed those worries aside while she waited for her laptop to boot up and connect to the store’s Wi-Fi. She navigated to the town’s library webpage and searched for links to old newspaper articles. Unfortunately, it didn’t look like they’d scanned all of the editions yet. They’d gone as far back as 1990 but she needed the 1980s. At the bottom of the list of available editions she saw a disclaimer that editions from the 1980s and earlier could be found at the library itself and the website offered a list of article titles from those editions. At least they were trying to be helpful.

Kalina typed in the search terms “trial” and “Cynthia Ellicott”. She was the only one of the three who hadn’t married and Kalina didn’t know Mrs. Davies’ or Mrs. Grant’s maiden names. The page populated a list of results. There were a couple of articles in which Ms. Ellicott’s name came up in connection with a trial. They were from the spring editions in March and April 1986. There was also an article from June 1987 linked to those from the year before. That was what she needed to find. She copied the article titles and editions and emailed them to herself, pulling the email up on her phone’s email app before heading out to the library. She could feel a break in the case coming. Answers were almost within her reach.

A short time later, she sat in the newspaper archive section of the library in the basement. It was quiet and she was grateful for the solitude. She didn’t need people asking questions she wasn’t ready to answer.

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