“What? No.”
“What did you do Halloween? Remember last year when you drank that Devil Punch and Fantasy and I had to take you to that quack hangover doctor?”
“That man is a genius.”
“Whatever, Baylor. What’d you get into on Halloween?”
“Nothing. I worked.”
“Tell me the truth,” I said. “I don’t have time for this.”
“Davis, I worked. I don’t know if anyone’s told you, but I’m the only one left. I worked the whole night, I mean all the way through the night. I’ll never forget it.”
“Why? What happened?”
“Do you know July, the Holiday Host?”
“Twelve years old? Big hair?”
“She’s not twelve years old.”
And just the way he said it, as if I’d insulted July the Holiday Host in the most vile and offensive of ways, I caught on. I was a police officer in Pine Apple for seven years before I was a Super Secret Spy at the Bellissimo, so these things didn’t slip by me too easily, babies or no babies. “Baylor? Do you like this girl?”
“Like her? Davis, I would die for her. I think I am dying for her. She might be killing me.”
And that was why Taco Bell was going out of business. Baylor met a girl.
About the Author
Gretchen Archer is a Tennessee housewife who began writing when her daughters, seeking higher educations, ran off and left her. She lives on Lookout Mountain with her husband, son, and a Yorkie named Bently. Double Whammy, her first Davis Way Crime Caper, was a Daphne du Maurier Award finalist and hit the USA TODAY Bestsellers List. You can visit her at www.gretchenarcher.com.
The Davis Way Crime Caper Series
by Gretchen Archer
DOUBLE WHAMMY (#1)
DOUBLE DIP (#2)
DOUBLE STRIKE (#3)
DOUBLE MINT (#4)
DOUBLE KNOT (#5)
DOUBLE UP (#6)
(March 2017)
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