Excerpt from Minnie and Moe by Dellani

Since Sidetracked was so dark, I decided to write something light and silly. It started out well enough, but I must have been in a weird mood after my novel, and it took a turn. Not dark, exactly, but a bit murky. Anyway, this is the first couple of pages, before Minnie and Moe took a turn.

“Assignment just came in over the wire, sir,” Miss Mona Penny announced.

“Excellent! What’s the job?”

“A hit on one Moe Chaufroid,” she said, setting a photo by his morning cuppa.

The man was tall, lanky, and singularly unattractive. He wore his limp, black hair slicked back from a too lean, angular face. “What’s the poor bastard done? He looks like an accountant!”

“He is an accountant, but a very clever one. In his case, looks are deceiving. He’s been embezzling from a conglomerate – and its owners are…