The motel clerk recommended it as a local favorite. He was taking a calculated risk. While he might pick up valuable information in a local diner, he might also be noticed. This was a small town, a place where strangers stood out like drugstore cowboys at a pro rodeo bull-riding event. He ordered coffee and breakfast. As he waited, he kept one ear open to the conversation around him while he perused the local paper, a rag called the Kane County Citizen. The paper’s lead story was devoted to the continuing murder investigation. Deluca read it with interest. On the back page, in the Police Blotter section, he discovered that a local woman, Rebecca Eddins, reported a prowler around her home earlier in the week. The short piece provided no address for Eddins. Could the prowler have been Ronnie Gadasky, stalking the woman in the photos? He intended to find out. *** Books stopped at the local Gas ’N’ Go for coffee and a copy of the Kane County Citizen on his way into the office.
