Swallow the Hook
Chapter 1
The door of the Stop'N'Buy wouldn't budge.
Yet the market was clearly open for business. Frank Bennett could see people inside, partly obscured by the promotion signs, beer posters, and garage sale flyers plastered on the windows and door. With another impatient push, he felt the door yield slightly. When he finally got it open wide enough to squeeze his wiry body through, he found himself smack up against the well-padded posterior of Edith Marsden.
She brought up the rear of a line that stretched from the cash register, past the ice-cream cooler, snaking around the chip-and-dip display, to end right inside the entrance. What the hell was this? There was never a line at the Stop'N'Buy -- or anywhere else in Trout Run, for that matter.
Frank listened as Debbie Flint, the day-shift clerk, attempted to run both the Ne ... read full excerpt from Swallow the Hook ebook
