Rocky Start

Rocky Start

Author: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer Listening Length: 11h 50m
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Think of the movie RED. Retired covert operatives living in a small town in the Smoky Mountains. What could go wrong? From the bestselling authors of Agnes and the Hitman and the Liz Danger series. Rose Malone’s landlord and employer, Ozzie Oswald, just died, and now she has no idea if she has a job or if she and her ...

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CHAPTER 5

I had walked back to the shop, trying to get myself to calm down. My plan was to put the CLOSED sign out again because I was not in the mood to have somebody like Mrs. Baumgarten come in and try to bargain me down a dollar on a two-dollar teacup. Mrs. Baumgarten is a sweet old lady, but that does not stop her from being a very sharp bargainer, so she’s good exercise for my brain and usually a lot of fun—she keeps a llama as a support animal, I think that says it all—but not today. I had wallets to check.

My cheek throbbed and I added “ice and arnica” to my to-do list.

When I opened the front door to go into the shop, the first thing I saw was Coral, coming in from the kitchen with a plastic bag in her hand. The plastic bag had her very thin knife in it—apparently the knife had been holding her picture hat in place—and I rethought whether the hat needed a crow. After meeting Junior, I decided a skinny knife was better. From now on, all my picture hats were going to have skinny knives. Of course, first I was going to have to get a picture hat. And a skinny knife.