Ghouls Ghouls Ghouls by Victoria Laurie

Author:Victoria Laurie [Laurie, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, ghost, Cozy, General
ISBN: 9781101019627
Google: Sg0KZxz8AhQC
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2009-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

In the end, Heath, John, and I decided to see if we could at least provide Gilley with the full name of Alex by heading to the newspaper. To our relief the building appeared to be open and functional.

The paper was a typical small-town affair; it was run by a father-and-son team with a circulation of slightly over a thousand people.

As it happened, Jordan Kincaid’s appearance in Dunlee and his subsequent death were the biggest stories the paper had ever covered, so they had no trouble providing us with the articles from the days leading up to and including the tragedies. Of course, they also requested that we grant them an interview, which is why it took us two hours to get back to the inn with our intel.

We found Gilley upstairs in his room, tapping away on his laptop, a cord connecting the camera to his computer.

I laid the articles on his bed. “The best we can do is show you a picture of her,” I said.

Gilley pulled his eyes reluctantly away from the screen. “Huh?”

“Alex’s name was withheld from the article at the request of Kincaid, but the reporter did manage to snag a picture of her right before she, Kincaid, and some other unnamed dude set out for Dunlow.”

Gilley squinted at the grainy black-and-white image. “Pretty, though, isn’t she?”

“Yeah,” said Heath. I cut him a look and he smiled sheepishly.

“Anyway,” I said, “now I want more than ever to track her down. There’s got to be a reason why Kincaid worked so hard to keep her a secret, and I want to know what that was.”

“Can I finish this first?” Gil asked.

I sat down next to him on the bed. “Are you working on the camera feed?”

“Yeppers,” he said, focusing back on the frozen green image. “I’ve been running the sound through a filter trying to pick up what he’s saying, but a lot of it is so corrupted or muted that I can’t really make a lot of sense out of it.”

“Were you able to get anything at all?”

Gilley swiveled the screen toward me. “I can distinctly hear this word,” he said before hitting the play button. Through the computer I heard, “trésor ...”

I closed my eyes and thought back to what I’d just heard. “Did he say ‘treasure’?”

Gilley nodded. “I think he was talking about finding the treasure in one of the crypts.”

But Heath still appeared skeptical. “But why would Dunnyvale tell you the phantom was brought to Dunlow by someone else?”

I turned to him. “Like I said before, he could have been lying.”

“But why?” Heath pressed. “I mean, what good would it do to ask you to rid his castle of the very thing that’s currently protecting his treasure? And what good does it do to tell you it was put there by someone with some sort of a connection to Alex? I mean, does this whole thing make sense as a wild-goose chase just for his amusement?”

Gilley sighed. “Nothing about this bust makes any sense, Heath.

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