When a woman moves into the sleepy town, it rouses everyone's tongues to start wagging. She is strange and distant in her manner. Tia Frost is blissfully unaware of the townsfolk's discomfort with her. With Burt at her side, she wonders about the wo...
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Another day of boring work. Being a policeman in a small town in the middle of nowhere means, most calls are for animals getting on to the road, people complaining about trespassing, motorbikes running across fields destroying the crops. So many silly things to ask the police to deal with.
Today is no different. I've only just got in and Janna handed me a report to follow up. Reading it as I walked to my locker didn't surprise me in the slightest. Another stupid dispute between two people. These two live in the holiday homes just out of town and are probably only going to be here for another week. I saw the time of the report and frowned. It was made at 9 am... that was at the end of James' shift.
"Janna, why wasn't this dealt with already?" I called from my locker.
"James said he was done dealing with these people."
I stuck my head back out of the room. "Why?"
"The complainant has called every day since she moved in a month ago."
I shook my head putting my things in my locker. "So tell me the history there. Why are they calling us?" I walked out of the locker room as I asked.
"They share a boundary with that odd lady that bought up all that land." Jenna said tapping away on her keyboard.
"The odd lady?"
She turned from her computer to give me a surprised look over the rim of her glasses. "You don't know about her! Almost everyone has come in here to say that she unnerved them or her dog has been aggressive towards them. Are you sure you haven't heard any of this?"
"Nope. I was off work for two weeks then I've been on nights and on call. The only thing I've had to deal with is those kids and their dirt bike."
She shook her head at me. "Well everyone has been talking about her. She came in about three days ago to update her gun license. She's got a lot of guns. She moved in about two or three months ago, she handed over her guns until she could have the gun safe fitted and the firearms officer to check her house out. Then she came to update her licence and take her guns back."
"That sounds perfectly normal to me." I said shrugging.
She sighed. "She followed the rules, yes but it's the way she acted. She was... curt, almost unfriendly. Her dog was on a lead when I saw him, but as soon as she can she takes him off the lead."
"Again I'm not hearing anything off yet. It just sounds like she's unfriendly."
She put her fists on her hips. "It's the way she does things. The only one she is friendly with is that dog. Everyone else is given the minimum amount of her attention. If she can get away from you without seeming to be rude and without seeing you she will. She never looks you in the eye and is... cold, plus she owns pretty much everything East of the town."
