Patch of Trouble by Elizabeth Craig

Author:Elizabeth Craig [Craig, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780997168556
Publisher: Elizabeth Spann Craig
Published: 2016-05-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

July 10th

I’m trying to figure out a better way to approach the problem. When I reached out before, it was assumed I was a blackmailer. Look, I might be poor, but I don’t have to resort to a life of crime to make a buck or two. My thought is that maybe I could sell a freelance story to one of the bigger papers to jumpstart my journalism career. I’d love to launch myself as an investigative journalist.

A couple of fairly quiet days passed. Beatrice occasionally saw Ramsay driving past when she was out walking Noo-noo. She’d have loved to have asked him how things were going with the case, but he didn’t have time to stop—he just gave her a quick wave and smile.

Beatrice didn’t even hear from Meadow because she was completely engrossed in putting the finishing touches on a quilt she planned on displaying in the upcoming craft fair.

Beatrice didn’t have much time either. She spent the two days setting up social media profiles for the quilters and uploading pictures she had on hand of different quilts. She did spend a few minutes searching online to see if there were any old stories from the local paper from around the time of Vivian’s disappearance. She was impressed that the newspaper had carefully scanned and uploaded back editions for decades, although the task might have been made easier by the fact that the paper was only published twice a week.

Beatrice was disappointed not to see any mention of Vivian’s disappearance. But then, time and time again, people she’d spoken with had really downplayed her sudden absence from the little town. It certainly hadn’t seemed at the time like the momentous occasion it now seemed to Beatrice. Even June Bug had been told by the police that this was just something that happened sometimes.

The only thing that she was able to find online was a picture at the craft fair from forty years ago. Now that Beatrice had seen the picture that Jake carried around, she was more easily able to spot Vivian in a picture. In this one, Vivian was standing in front of the Dappled Hills library with a variety of quilts hanging in the background. She wasn’t looking at the camera, but was instead laughing at a young man who was holding a couple of hot dogs and grinning back at her. The picture wasn’t captioned, but Beatrice was able to see that, upon closer inspection, it was a younger version of Jake.

There was another figure in the picture too, but Beatrice couldn’t tell who it was. She made the image on her laptop larger and stared at it for a minute. Finally she realized that it was a younger Huey in the background. You could really only see part of his face, but what was visible held a very grim expression. Beatrice printed the photo.

Her phone buzzed at her and Beatrice sighed before reaching for it. Miss Sissy had been quiet the last couple of days too, which had been a nice change.

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