Eccentric Lady blurb:
A Lacey Summers P.I. Novel
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AN9ZPOE
“You do know
Agnes Simms?” Her voice was a bit skeptical. Oh, oh. Was she going to change
her mind about coming here?
As I added water
and grounds to the coffeemaker, I wracked my memory for that name. Landers only
has a thousand people, so I know most of them. But some work in the cities and
only use our little burg as a bedroom town, doing all their shopping and
business elsewhere. So those I’ve had little opportunity to meet. “I think I’ve
heard the name, but can’t recall meeting her right now. Could you tell me a bit
about her? And what your problem is?”
Patti stood at
my office window staring out over Long Lake while I stood at the side table
making coffee. She was a perfectly groomed, slim woman with long blonde hair.
She wore a navy blue business suit with matching high heels and carried a
matching leather purse. Her lips and fingertips were bright red. But she wore a
worried look on her face instead of a smile.
“My problem is
that you have a stupid sheriff!” she burst out, bitterness dripping from her
voice.
My head jerked
up and I stared at her. She ambled over to the chair by my desk and sat. I
thought of Ben, the tall, gangly, middle-aged man who was our county sheriff.
He’d also been my late Uncle Henry’s card playing buddy and thus was almost a
part of my family. On weekends when I’d visited my uncle during college, I’d
fixed that bunch of men more sandwiches and cookies than I could count.
Upset now, I counted to ten to control my temper
and said carefully, “I’ve heard Ben called a lot of things, but stupid is a
first. Why do you say that?” 
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