Aiming for Trouble (Goetic Witch Mysteries Book 1) by Audrey Brice

Author:Audrey Brice [Brice, Audrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Darkerwood Publishing Group, LLC
Published: 2022-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

I started with the desk, sorting the papers into different folders based on what they contained. It was certainly confusing. Aunt Beatrice had spells alongside bread recipes and notes about the riding school. I merely used a scissor to separate the notes and put each in its folder, and in two hours, I’d cleared her entire desk. There was nothing here that explained the aconite in her tea and Jim’s coffee. Next, I cleaned, then neatly wrapped up all the ritual tools and placed them in the drawers of the altar, which was basically another desk that my aunt had turned into her sacred space. There was little chance I’d need to use it, and if I did, I could easily set it up again. Then I started on the bookshelf, removing all the books that contained family information, notes, bookmarks, or those about the more subversive dark arts and stacked them neatly on the top shelf of my bedroom closet. I would go through those at night before bed. I was, after all, curious about why Aunt Beatrice had marked the pages, and I was beginning to suspect that if I was going to find any answers about her murder, they would be in those books, in marked pages, possibly with notes. Or perhaps she’d written something in one of her journals or the family grimoire. I hadn’t stopped to read them. When I was done, my aunt’s study looked like a normal study, free from most witchy things. The titles left on the shelves still contained a few occult books among them, but none of them had bookmarks hanging out of them, and they were mostly benign. They had titles like 101 Brews for Health, and Witchcraft in the Modern Age. I left books by Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, and Franz Bardon there, too, since they were common enough to be found on any occultist’s bookshelves. It wasn’t a secret my aunt had an interest in those sorts of things, and I was curious what my aunt’s first editions were worth anyway.

My task complete, I headed downstairs to get myself a well-deserved cup of tea. About halfway down I heard a car pull up. “Who is it now?” I asked the empty house. The ghosts, and even Sebastian, had abandoned me for the cleanup.

I headed to the front door and opened it expecting to find Detective Reeves or Justin Brady on the other side of it. Instead, I was met with an excited Sarah with what looked like a brochure in her hand.

“Oh, Samigina! I’ve had the most brilliant idea!” She waved the brochure at me as she came up the steps to the door.

I opened it wide to let her in and got out of the way.

“I’m not interrupting you, am I?” she asked, not even pausing before making her way to the kitchen. Without waiting for an answer, she continued. “Several ideas.”

“Oh?” I followed.

She went to the nearest chair and sat, slapping the papers on the table.

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