Purrfect Alibi by Nic Saint

Author:Nic Saint [Saint, Nic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Cozy, General
ISBN: 9781798270493
Google: s9i_wgEACAAJ
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-02-28T08:00:00+00:00

As Odelia and Gran were on their way back from the Hampton Cove Star, Dooley and Max napping on the backseat, she got a call from her boss, Hampton Cove Gazette editor Dan Goory.

“Dan. Have I got a story for you,” she said before he could speak.

“I don’t doubt it,” said the aged editor. “And here’s another one: Chris Ackerman’s son is giving a press conference in front of the library where his father was killed last night and I want you there to write up the report.”

“Ackerman’s son? I just saw him. He didn’t mention a press conference.”

“Get me a couple of quotes, Odelia. And take some pictures, will you? This story has legs, I can feel it in my legs.” He disconnected and Odelia promptly performed a U-turn.

“Hey—where are you going?” asked Gran, shaken out of her perusal of the footage she’d filmed so far.

“To the library. Trey Ackerman is holding a press conference.”

“Weird. He didn’t say nothing about no press conference.”

“He probably didn’t think it worth mentioning.”

“Make it quick. I feel a nap coming on.” Gran darted a quick look in the rearview mirror. “Too bad I’m not a cat. Those catnaps are pretty convenient.”

Ten minutes later Odelia parked her car across the road from the library and got out. Max opened one eye but then closed it again when Odelia gave his fur a gentle stroke.

“Sleep, buddy. You deserve it,” she said.

She and Gran crossed the street. “Huh,” said Gran. “That don’t look like Trey Ackerman to me.”

And indeed it didn’t. A young man was standing on the library steps, a few passersby listening intently, and he definitely wasn’t Trey Ackerman.

“I didn’t know Ackerman had a second son,” said Gran.

“That’s because he doesn’t,” said Odelia. “At least not according to Wikipedia.”

“Don’t believe Wikipedia. They get it wrong all the time,” said Gran. “Like that time they wrote that The Bold and the Beautiful had been canceled. The Bold and the Beautiful will never be canceled. At least not if CBS doesn’t want a minor revolution on their hands.”

“… and I will fight to my dying breath for the right to call Chris my dad,” Ackerman’s son was saying. He was a handsome fellow, with wavy blond hair, nice blue eyes and those clean-cut All-American features women fawn over. He even had nice teeth—so nice in fact that Odelia’s tongue surreptitiously slid over her own set of choppers.

“Nice gnashers,” Gran remarked.

“A dentist’s wet dream,” Odelia agreed.

“Forget dentists. He’s my wet dream.”

Odelia thought it better not to head down that road. “So who is this guy?”

“Aren’t you listening? He’s Chris Ackerman’s son.”

“… Chris was a good man. A kind man. A phenomenal writer. And he had an affair with my mother twenty-three years ago that led to an unwanted pregnancy. And even though Chris was too proud to admit it, a DNA test will confirm that I am, in fact, his son.”

“Oops,” said Gran.

Oops was right. Especially considering the fact that satellite trucks from at least three different TV stations came careening down the street.

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