by Diana Orgain | May 10, 2021 | Cooking up Murder, Sneak Peek, Uncategorized
Did you miss part one? From Murder as Sticky as Jam Chapter One – Continued Leo Lawson, Vicki’s older brother, was tall, dark and handsome. He’d been the first boy Mona had a crush on back in school, and she’d never gotten over him. In high school, he’d broken her heart when he started dating, Lacey, the head cheerleader. But shortly after gradua‐ tion, he’d left Magnolia Falls, to join the military, and now he was back after eight long years. She knew he worked at the Magnolia Falls PD, but she hadn’t seen him, yet. Not properly anyway. She’d ducked out of the grocery store a few times, when she’d seen his patrol car pull into the parking lot. And there’d been the time, she snuck out of the back of the bookstore on Main Street, when she’d heard his voice asking the clerk for the latest police procedural. But she hadn’t spoken with him, yet. She’d been in the hospital with tonsillitis during his homecoming party, and she’d missed him twice at Vicki’s due to bad timing. As she waited for the water to boil, she printed out the inventory list and the pricing guide and headed back to the shop. With a pricing gun in her hand, she priced all the blackberry jam and then began working on the strawberry. Thoughts of Leo filled her mind and she daydreamed about seeing him at the grand opening. What am I going to wear? Mona thought in a panic. Looking around the shop, she wondered if she would have time to go shopping and pick out something...
