The Embezzled Espresso (The Specs Vance Case Files)

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Eighteen percent of the beans are walking out of the Art Deco Grind, and the owner blames the new delivery driver.Sterling “Specs” Vance, who has been watching the café from its corner booth for sixty-four days while pretending to have moved to Verano for the quiet, notices something the owner has not. Five of the six varieties reconcile. One dark roast is fifty-one percent short. A thief shorting bags shorts the bags he can get away with. He does not pick a flavor.Del, who runs the counter and has started calling him Specs without permission, dares him to do for money what he already does for free. A career of intelligence training, one whiteboard, and a shift schedule later, Specs opens his first case file in a town that has no idea what it has just hired.Case File No. 01 of the Specs Vance Case Files. Collected in Volume One: Opening Statements.