Winning The Batchelor (A Patty Cakes Bake Shop Cozy Mystery Book 7) by Holly Plum

Author:Holly Plum [Plum, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-23T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Joy was relieved when she ushered her last customers of the day out the door. With a killer on the loose, half the town was tearing itself apart over a silly superstition. The other half was too busy following Landon Park around town. Joy welcomed the prospect of a night at home in her pajamas sleuthing from her laptop. If she managed to dig up any real dirt on Landon Park or his so-called assistant, she might even reward herself with another episode of Crime Brûlée.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do if I go into work tomorrow and Sara Beth is still mad at me,” Joy said to Cheesecake as he sat at his bowl in the kitchen, placidly eating. It wouldn’t have been the first time Sara Beth had given her the cold shoulder over a disagreement. “I'm not jealous of her date with Landon. I just don't want her to get hurt."

Cheesecake gave no indication that he was listening. Joy scratched him a few times behind the ears, and then bent down and kissed his head before getting up and moving into the living room.

Joy’s first order of business was to search Tenny on the internet. But right away she ran into a problem. Searching Tenny Morris didn’t turn up much. Most of the results that came up involved an English folk band.

After scrolling through twelve pages, Joy gave up and accepted that she wasn’t going to get anywhere. Either the name Tenny wasn’t a real name, or it was short for something else. Pulling Cheesecake from the floor and onto her lap, she began brainstorming potential variations on his name.

“Help me out here, Cheesecake,” Joy said, pulling up a blank document on her laptop. “Tenny. What could that be short for?”

Cheesecake did not prove very helpful, but after ten minutes of deep thought she came up with a few possible suggestions:

- Tennis

- Tennessee

- Tony (which Joy had mistaken for Tenny)

- Tennyson

Some of her ideas proved more helpful than others. There were about a million Tony Morris's and she wasn’t prepared to sit there for the next dozen hours searching until she found the right one. There was only one Tennessee Morris that came up, and he had apparently been in prison for the last seven years.

It was when she came to Tennyson Morris, however, that she finally found something.

The first result that came up took Joy to the web page of a well-known public relations firm, Lightwood & Whistler. Apparently, there was a Tennyson Morris who had worked there for some time as an image management and brand consultant. When she clicked on his bio, there he was—the man she had met earlier that day in the bake shop. With his short stature, lofty expression and trademark fedora, there was no way it could have been anyone else.

“For over twenty years,” Joy read out loud, “Tennyson Morris has been an acknowledged leader in the world of brand management, working alongside some of America’s most high-profile actors and celebrities to rehabilitate their images on social media.

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