Give Up The Ghost (Hallow Haven Witch Mysteries Book 9) by Mara Webb

Author:Mara Webb [Webb, Mara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

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Standing outside the bedroom door of Marvin’s home was a young woman that I haven't seen before. She had shoulder length brown hair, subtle caramel highlights shining a little brighter under the hallway lights than the rest.

“Are you Sadie Alden?” she asked.

“Who's asking, toots?” Fitz snapped.

“Yes I am,” I replied.

“I’m Hayley, my grandfather told me to call you, I think he told a few of his friends to call you too,” she said, as she waved a hand over the door handle. Small swirls of light span outward from her palm and I could hear the clicking sound of multiple lock mechanisms moving. “He asked me to put enchanted locks on his door after Emmett died.”

She opened the door, ushered us inside and quickly closed it again, locking it in place. It was like a small ground floor apartment. Primrose Hill was a series of separate buildings which housed half a dozen individual living spaces, meaning that Marvin had at least five neighbors. I wondered who he was hoping to keep out with those locks?

The decoration in here was interesting to say the least. The walls of the living room were largely covered by a number of cork boards, on which were pinned photographs of fellow Primrose Hill residents, letters, newspaper articles, and one sheet of paper which appeared to be cut from a magazine with a recipe for banana bread. One of these things is not like the others.

“What's going on in here?” I asked.

“Pops was a detective, probably a little before your time, Sheriff,” Hayley smiled towards Miller, “but he only retired from the police station, in his mind he was still investigating just not getting paid anymore. Emmett was old, sure, but he was healthy. Most people in Primrose Hill live into the hundreds, and now murder seems to be the leading cause of death here.”

“So all this, the stuff on the walls the red yarn connecting one thing to another, this is part of Marvin's investigation into Emmett's murder?”

“When did we all decide his death was a murder?” Miller asked.

“Don't get bogged down in the details Miller, it was probably around the time that you were chasing your own tail and scratching the fleas from behind your ear last night,” Fitz huffed.

“Maybe on future excursions we could hold a vote as to whether Fitz gets to come,” Miller grumbled.

“I like him,” Mabel beamed, “I'd love to have a familiar like you, how do you get your fur so silky?”

Mabel needed to be liked in the same way that a plant needs sunlight. For all I knew she could be allergic to cats and she would still be crouching down and petting him the same. Those two are a match made in heaven, he needed attention and she was an intense people pleaser.

“In ancient Egypt, Mabel, cats were worshipped like gods. I suspect if we traveled back in time you'd be some sort of pharaoh or something,” Fitz remarked. Oh brother. I rolled my eyes and turned my attention back to Hayley who was watching the interaction unfold with equal bafflement.

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