Silver Hollow Paranormal Cozy Mystery Books 1-3 (Silver Hollow Cozy Mysteries Box-Set) by Leighann Dobbs & Traci Douglass

Author:Leighann Dobbs & Traci Douglass [Dobbs, Leighann & Douglass, Traci]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Dex had seen his share of small-town police buildings, and the one in Silver Hollow actually wasn’t too shabby despite the small size of the town. Sure, it wasn’t abundant in space—none of them were—but it had a decent-sized lobby and a few cells. The evidence room could have used some work or maybe a lock on the door, but that wasn’t Dex’s problem. He supposed the lax attitude toward security worked here. After all, how many real crimes could this small town have?

Then again, there had been two murders just this summer.

One thing he wished—especially if there were going to be more murders here—was that they would enlarge the sheriff’s office. It was tiny, and now—just as in the previous murder case—Dex found himself stuffed in there with three other people, raising the temperature to balmy and making the air thick.

Owen didn’t have much furniture, just a plain metal desk with a 1950s green Pleather chair behind it and a hard plastic guest chair that no one, including Dex, wanted to sit in. Right now, Owen was standing behind the desk, and the medical examiner, Ursula Lavoie, stood across from it. DeeDee Clawson was leaning against one wall, and Dex leaned against the wall opposite her. Dex’s official involvement in the case had been sanctioned by the FBI, and Owen had called the meeting to bring everyone up to date on the clues and ME findings.

Dex studied the others as Owen rattled off the specifics of the case and Ursula talked medical speak. The sheriff looked more as though he belonged on a surfboard, though Dex could see his face was set in grim determination. In the murder case earlier this summer, Dex hadn’t been too sure about Sheriff Gleason, but now he realized that even though the guy wasn’t super savvy about police work, he certainly had the desire. And he seemed like a fair man carefully considering all the clues and not wanting to jump to conclusions and throw the book at everyone, as Stan would have done. Now that Dex was thinking about it, he’d much rather work with Owen than Stan.

Dex had met Detective Clawson—DeeDee, as the locals called her—during that earlier case too. But now she looked different. He wasn’t sure what it was—surer of herself and… well… more attractive. Maybe they’d gotten new deputy outfits or she’d had her hair cut. It didn’t really matter. What did matter was that Dex liked her. He got the distinct impression she was “on his side,” though he had no idea why. As far as he knew, there weren’t any sides for anyone to be on.

The other woman was even stranger than Gleason and Clawson. She looked as though she spent a lot of time in the morgue. Her hair, a stark jet black, was pulled back tight in a bun at her neck. Her skin was as pale as ivory soap, and her eyes were as dark as her hair. But the kicker was her ruby-red lips—a splash of bright color in her otherwise pale demeanor.

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