The Case of the Missing Easter Egg: A Pastor Matt Hayden Mystery Short Story, #1

By K.P. Gresham

He was a good cop until he ran into a bad one. Now, to safe his own life and the lives of his family, Matt Hayden has entered the Federal Witness Protection Program. Now Matt is torn between his life as an undercover cop on the docks of Miami, and a new calling far from those violent days. Should he become a pastor? The answer is hidden in the search for a missing Easter egg.

• Language: English
• Publisher: K.P. Gresham
• Release date: Aug 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781956394016

K.P. Gresham

K.P. Gresham is the award-winning author of the Pastor Matt Hayden Mystery Series as well as several stand-alone novels. Active in Sisters in Crime and the Writers League of Texas, she has won Best Novel awards from the Bay Area Writers League as well as the Mystery Writers of America. Where to Find K.P.Website: http://www.kpgresham.com/Email: [e-mail]: https://inkstainedwretches.home.blog/https://austinmysterywriters.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kpgresham

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The Case of the Missing Easter Egg

By K.P. Gresham

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If a person wants to attend an Easter sunrise service, that person must get out of bed before sunrise. Which was the last thing Matt Hayden wanted to do. He’d spent the last three days hauling furniture, unpacking boxes and basically trying to make his new home livable for him, his mom and his brother.

Nonetheless, when his bedside alarm clock blared at the obscene hour of five o’clock, Matt pulled his six-foot frame out of bed and headed for the bathroom. As nature took its course, Matt took stock of the man he saw in the mirror. His once sun-streaked, long hair was gone, replaced by a short, side-parted business cut. Strange as that seemed, it was they eyes staring back at him that always caught him off guard. The haunted look said it all. Those green eyes hadn’t smiled for months.

As he headed back to his room to get dressed, his brother, Luke, called out from his bedroom on the other side of the single-story home. Boo!

Matt crossed the front room and stuck his head in Luke’s doorway. His mother, Jewel, tall and thin with black hair piled on her head, was already in the