Solstice Goat: Patricia Fisher Blue Moon Mysteries Book 1 (Patricia Fisher Mystery Adventures 2) by Steve Higgs

Author:Steve Higgs [higgs, steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-09T16:00:00+00:00

Research

I had Anna snuggled on my lap as Barbie and I tucked into some lunch – a healthy one because I was with Barbie. She is impossible to argue with because I know she is right when she argues nutrition.

Next to Anna was Georgie, the one girl from the litter. After a tough morning of doing almost nothing, they were now exhausted and needed to sleep it seemed. Barbie had three tiny boy puppies arranged on a cushion on her lap as she scrolled, clicked, and ransacked the internet. They were sleeping too, the three of them all in a line with their noses beneath her left elbow and their tails all in a line over her right thigh.

‘What about Anthony Perkins?’ asked Barbie, pulling up a social media profile for him. She had checked him a bit last night, but it was late then, and we were all tired. There wasn’t a lot to learn from the popular sites; he wasn’t a person who bothered to post about his life to others. She switched to looking at his company and his wider family, pulling up a separate search for Mortice Keys using his real name, Arthur Poole, at the same time to see if we could find a connection somewhere. Both men had multiple children, four for Mortice and three for Anthony, all adults now which extended the search because the connection might be through their children’s’ university attendance or work or joint membership at a club. I was scribbling physical notes and drawing lines between ideas, but we were fast approaching the point where would have to admit we had gone down a rabbit hole.

Barbie pointed to the screen. ‘Here’s something.’ I looked up from my notepad. ‘Ten months ago, the biggest rival to Telelift, Anthony Perkins’ firm, was burned to the ground in a fire that was suspected arson.’ I looked at the photographs of a fire raging at night as firefighters did their best to quell the blaze. ‘I found it by accident because I was looking at his books and found a massive spike. His business has been going twenty years and doing steadily until two years ago when its profit and turnover started to rise. Then it skyrocketed as we came into this year. It could be nothing …’ she admitted.

‘Or it could be something. Have you looked at Mortice Keys’ books yet?’

‘I was just about to.’

We studied them together, both jumping when we saw a similar spike occurring eighteen months ago. It drove Barbie to search for events which might have caused it. Finally feeling that we might be onto something, I opened a second laptop which I used to continue looking for a connection. Thirty minutes of silence followed as Barbie and I both stared at our screens as we looked for the answers. None came.

When my phone rang, Anna popped her head up to grump me because I leaned too far and woke her up; dachshunds are so intolerant. The caller was Jermaine.

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