The News In Small Towns (Small Town Series, Book 1) - Plot & Excerpts
I said. Gina nodded so I walked into the bedroom and dialed. “Cal, it’s Sue-Ann. I was in the shower.” “Sorry about that,” he said. “But I’m glad you’re home.” “What have you got?” “Between seven and eight this morning, a woman named Estelle Hobbs went out to see to her hens and gather some eggs. She has some kind of a coop in her back yard and when she went inside, she found her dog dead and put up in one of the nests. Throat was cut and belly slit open. Just like that goat.” “Where does this woman live?” I asked. Gina was standing beside me, holding a lit cigarette in her left hand and the ashtray in her right. “Got a pencil?” “Of course.” “Okay, she has an acre or so on Peg-leg Road, off Highway 136.” I started writing. Cal went on to give me more precise directions, which included turning down a dirt road and passing a large magnolia tree just before the woman’s driveway. As he was talking, though, a thought struck me. “Cal, if all this happened this morning, why are you just telling me about it now?”
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