Must Love Ghosts
Coffee and Ghosts: Episode 5
A MERE FOUR DAYS AGO, I was behind bars. So meeting Police Chief Ramsey on the front steps of the Springside Township Police Department?
Somewhat awkward.
Chief Ramsey’s bulk casts a shadow across the steps. He studies the space behind me, around me, in between us. He coughs, once.
“You’re not under arrest,” he says. “You know that, right?”
I c**k my head and stare. His gaze darts to my face and lingers there—or, more accurately, on my left cheek—before he can compose himself.
I resist the urge to touch my face.
“And you’re free to leave town as well.” He shrugs, as if the last forty-eight hours were a simple misunderstanding. “Seems there was a theft ring operating here. Pretty clever of them to follow you around. The Minneapolis Polic
