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 13

I ’d sold four Susie Cooper teacups and saucers, which was a start because Art Deco china is not cheap. It was enough that I could invite Max to stay for a second dinner if he was still around tomorrow. Then Melissa Merriweather, one of our two funeral directors in town, called to say that Pike had called her about picking up Ozzie’s body from her funeral home. She said it would be much easier if she handled the cremation rather than the supposed celebration that Pike had in mind and asked me to tell him that. She sounded irritated with Pike, but she was irritable in general unless you were the family of somebody who’d died. Good mortician, though.

I had no idea what Pike had in mind, but since he and Ozzie had been friends forever, I was pretty sure it was what Ozzie had wanted. I told her I was fine with Pike doing whatever he was doing; besides, I didn’t really have a legal claim to the body. Much like I didn’t have a legal claim to this store or the Pathfinder out back or pretty much anything. Melissa reluctantly agreed. No one in town had ever gone up against either Pike or Ozzie.

Then I went back to the kitchen door, but Max was gone. I began to wonder if he’d come back or just keep walking? —