some still had their heads down and their eyes closed when piper raised her own head to look at them : two recently fired lady cops , a retired supermarket manager , a newspaperwoman who no longer had a newspaper , a librarian , the owner of the i local restaurant , a dome-widow who could n't stop spinning the wedding ring on her finger , the local department store tycoon , and three uncharacteristically solemn-faced kids sitting scrunched together on the sofa .