Egg Shooters

Informationen zum Autor Laura Childs  is the  New York Times  bestselling author of the Tea Shop Mysteries, Scrapbooking Mysteries, and Cackleberry Club Mysteries. In her previous life she was CEO of her own marketing firm, authored several screenplays, and produced a reality TV show. Klappentext A murder in the local hospital is raising everyone's temperature in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling Cackleberry Club series. Suzanne Dietz, co-owner of the Cackleberry Club Café, is visiting her fiancé, Dr. Sam Hazelet, when a masked gunman bursts into the emergency room. He shoots two people and would probably have done more damage had Suzanne not brained him with a thermos full of chili. Still, the gunman manages to escape. Now the ladies of the Cackleberry Club are determined to find the killer before he finds them. Leseprobe CHAPTER 1   Suzanne caught a strobing red blip in her rearview mirror and hoped it wasn't an ambulance.   It was.   The siren let out a piercing whoop whoop as she hastily pulled her car to the side of the road and watched the emergency vehicle steam by.   Another patient for Sam.   Suzanne Dietz was engaged to Dr. Sam Hazelet who, at this very moment, was probably on the radio having a tense talk with one of the EMTs.   So much for bringing Sam a late Sunday supper of chili and cornbread.   What had felt like a languid spring evening now seemed infused with tension. And Suzanne fervently hoped that, whatever unlucky soul was strapped to the gurney in that ambulance, they weren't pumping out their last pint of blood or gasping a final breath.   Suzanne lifted her hands from the steering wheel momentarily and breathed out.   Okay. It's still better to stick to my original plan. Sooner or later Sam's going to be hungry.   Suzanne was a tick past forty with ash blond hair, a practically flawless complexion, and just a hint of crow's feet at the corner of her eyes. Character lines, that's what she told herself when she washed off her makeup and studied herself in the magnifying mirror. Those tiny lines helped make her oval face more interesting, right? On the other hand, slathering on gobs of moisturizer might keep them in a holding pattern for as long as humanly possible.   The rest of Suzanne was fairly streamlined. If she lived in New York instead of small town Kindred, she could have probably passed for one of those real-people, middle-aged TV models who were enjoying a brief renaissance in this age of supposed non-ageism. Suzanne was always polished, engaged, and upbeat, though she generally stuck to a casual wardrobe of white cotton shirts knotted at the waist of her faded blue jeans.   Her first husband, Walter, had died four years ago. And now-through some fabulous miracle, probably brought about by fairies and unicorns-she found herself engaged to Sam Hazelet, the town doctor. Engaged and soon-to-be-married. Very soon, as they'd already reserved the backyard patio of Kopell's Restaurant.   A gentle wave of euphoria swept over Suzanne as she turned into the hospital parking lot, for she understood how lucky she was to have found love a second time. Smiling, humming along with the radio now-Adele was singing "Set Fire to the Rain"-she ignored the visitor parking spots in front and pulled all the way around to the back of the building, to the ER entrance. That's where she'd find Sam. And hopefully, if he wasn't up to his ears in X-rays, CBCs, and EEGs, they'd have a few minutes alone together. And she could deliver his dinner. Along with a long, lingering kiss.   The small ER waiting room was empty tonight. Lights were dimmed, chairs empty, magazines arranged just so on low tables. It was a place that felt quiet and hushed. Where everyone walked around in crepe-s...

Product details

• Authors: Laura Childs
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780425281741
• ISBN: 978-0-425-28174-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 211 mm x 25 mm
• Series: A Cackleberry Club Mystery; Cackleberry Club Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy