Keep Calm and Candy On (Sweet Shop Mystery Book 4) by Wendy Meadows

Author:Wendy Meadows [Meadows , Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Majestic Owl Publishing LLC
Published: 2020-05-19T16:00:00+00:00

9

I wake up at three o’clock the next morning and lie awake in the dark. I stare at the ceiling, but I can’t stop thinking about the case. I ought to be thinking about David, but my mind won’t stay focused on him.

I’m not mad at him anymore. I know why he did what he did. I know we both need to take some time off. We got really close over the last few months. Now we’re going into a hibernation period. Maybe that’s for the best.

At least I know he’s not a cheater. When I think back on the events of the last few days, it all makes sense. Even so, he’s a stranger to me now. I don’t feel the same thrill about him. I don’t feel anything. It’s as if the last six months never happened.

I was never in a romance with him. I never went on dates with him. I never did any of it with him. I’ve been on my own the whole time, and I’m just as strong and capable as if I never dated him at all.

Does he feel the same way about me? I can’t even think about that. It bears no relevance to my life at all.

The case occupies all my attention now. I run through what I know. A lot of people seem to have a motive to kill Mark Sheridan, but none of them have a motive to kill him right away. Of all the available suspects, only two had regular contact with dogs: Mr. Stewart and Bea Donohue.

So that brings us to the soap. Someone had access to professional-grade dog shampoo. They used it on their dog. Then they got their dog’s hair on their clothes. They struggled with Mark injecting the soap into his neck. They transferred the dog’s hair from their own clothes to Mark’s suit. Then they tried to erase the evidence by laundering the suit.

We have only the official record to show that Mr. Stewart used that soap, but he’s a retailer. The police didn’t check the records of any private individual who might have used the same shampoo on their champion Shih Tzus.

Mr. Stewart said showmen used Floral Glow, too. David assumed only no one else in West End used professional-grade dog shampoo. Now I know there is one competitive dog person in town: Bea Donohue.

What about motive? Mr. Stewart didn’t like Mark Sheridan. Everybody knows that, but that doesn’t give him a motive to murder. A man as smart as Mr. Stewart would know he didn’t have to kill Mark to stop the development.

Bea is another story altogether. Whether the development when ahead or not, the toy store would still be sold. She had to stop that, and the only way to do it was to stop Mark getting the documents notarized.

When David and I interviewed Bea and Patrick at the toy store, Bea acted all surprised that Patrick agreed to sell the store, but that could have been nothing more than an act.

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