Dead Eye (A Tiger's Eye Mystery book 1)
“The GYST was a very popular day trip for senior citizens in Orlando with their families, who’d had more than enough of the theme parks. There was only so much giant mouse you could take when you were older than twelve.
We had a deal with Mr. Holby, the gregarious tour operator, to swing by after their mornings at the airboat swamp tour place. We paid him fifty dollars every time he brought a bus by, and his passengers got to spend money on things they didn’t need and enjoy the “authentic Florid...a swamp town pawnshop experience.” And of course we made money. So it was a win-win-win all the way around.
I put on my cheerful face as Eleanor came out from the back room—just a sweet, neighborly woman who’d been securing the Glock she might or might not know how to use—and we prepared for an hour of small talk, brisk sales, and breathless descriptions of the “real, live alligator” they’d all seen from the boats.
“As if we’ve never seen an alligator before,” Eleanor muttered under her breath to me some time later, when she was ringing up a sale of a taxidermied raccoon for a man and his wife who were wearing matching orange-and-green my-eyes-are-bleeding shirts.MoreLess
We had a deal with Mr. Holby, the gregarious tour operator, to swing by after their mornings at the airboat swamp tour place. We paid him fifty dollars every time he brought a bus by, and his passengers got to spend money on things they didn’t need and enjoy the “authentic Florid...a swamp town pawnshop experience.” And of course we made money. So it was a win-win-win all the way around.
I put on my cheerful face as Eleanor came out from the back room—just a sweet, neighborly woman who’d been securing the Glock she might or might not know how to use—and we prepared for an hour of small talk, brisk sales, and breathless descriptions of the “real, live alligator” they’d all seen from the boats.
“As if we’ve never seen an alligator before,” Eleanor muttered under her breath to me some time later, when she was ringing up a sale of a taxidermied raccoon for a man and his wife who were wearing matching orange-and-green my-eyes-are-bleeding shirts.MoreLess
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