Have Yourself a Merry Little Murder by K. J. Emrick

Author:K. J. Emrick [Emrick, K. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: South Coast Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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This book on the screen… wasn’t bad, actually. It was certainly engaging enough that Darcy wanted to read more. Although, it actually sounded kind of familiar. Like maybe she’d read it before. It was right there at the edge of her mind, but she couldn’t quite drag it out.

“Ah, I see you’ve found my new novel,” Mark said to her as he came in from the kitchen carrying two cups of coffee. “It’s not finished yet. I have another twenty thousand words to put into it, and then there’s going to be three to four days of editing to get it set before I send it to my publisher for their review, and then I’ll have to make any changes he suggests… yeah. It’s a long process.”

He laughed as he passed her a cup of coffee. It sounded to Darcy like a lot of work. She’d considered writing a book before, maybe a ‘how to’ about conducting spirit communications like her Great Aunt Millie had written, but she’d never gone through with it. Was it really that hard? Mark sounded like he loved it.

The cup of coffee was warm in Darcy’s hand and it smelled wonderful. She might have to drink a whole pot to stay warm while she was here. It was absolutely freezing in this house. If only the furnace hadn’t gone out, it would be a lot easier for Darcy to concentrate on why she was really here if she wasn’t starting to shiver.

Someone had killed two people at the end of town. If it wasn’t the mother, Lana Harris, then it had to be someone who could move around in the storm. Sure, there were lots of people in town who might have ways of doing that, but Darcy had only seen a few of them actually out and about in the storm.

Mark Franks had been one of them.

He was holding his own coffee cup in between his gloved hands. He took several sips, and sighed. “There’s nothing like a good cup of coffee on a cold day. You should be home with those kids of yours, shouldn’t you? Such a nice family. You’re so lucky to have a family like that.”

“Well, yeah I guess I am,” she started to say, but Mark kept talking like he hadn’t heard her.

“Yes, family is really important to me. I hope to have one of my own someday. A couple of kids of my own, maybe. They say you get two chances at a family. The one you’re born with, and then the one you create yourself when you’re an adult.”

Darcy knew the truth of that, but then again she had lucked into having a good, strong relationship with her mother after a long time of barely tolerating each other. She’d made the best of her second chances. At least, she was trying to. “You never told me if you had a family of your own, Mark.”

“Hmm? Oh, I did. But you know how that goes. You grow up, you drift apart, some die, some live.

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