High Spirits (The Moonlight Monsters Detective Agency) by Maggie Harper

Author:Maggie Harper [Harper, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Thompson, Joyce, MacGowan Publishing Group
Published: 2011-12-16T04:30:00+00:00

Tina jumped up and ran out to the hallway. The Hernandez family were quick on her heels. The piano was open with the stool pulled out, but the spirit was gone.

‘So now you see,’ Juan said.

‘I never doubted it,’ Tina replied. She could feel the residue of the spirit that had inhabited the room just moments ago. It was child-like and innocent, but also lost and lonely.

At that moment her cellphone started to ring and all three adults jumped.

‘Sorry,’ Tina muttered.

She pulled out her phone. It was Boris.

‘Hello?’

‘Ya, Tina?’ Boris answered, ‘I’ve arrived on Godot Road, but I can’t see a damn thing in this light. Where are you?’

‘Give me a second,’ Tina said, and then turned back to the others. ‘It’s my partner, he’s just arrived. I better go out and show him the way. I’ll be back in a moment.’

She stepped outside into the cold icy night. Somewhere overhead the thundering rush of an airplane descending sounded out in the darkness. She walked down the path and out onto the road, keeping her eyes peeled for Boris. At the end of the street, with his huge hulking figure shrouded beneath a heavy fur overcoat and a Russian hat, was her partner.

Jeez, she thought, in the darkness and snow the werebear looked like he’d be every bit as terrifying to the unawares as whatever it was that was lurking in the shadows of the house she’d just left. She’d have to remind him to take off his hat at least, before he went inside and gave them all a heart attack.

‘Over here!’ she called.

Boris spun on his heels and began crunching across the snow towards her. ‘Ah,’ he smiled, ‘there you are. It is a cold evening, no?’

‘Yeah,’ Tina snorted, ‘as if you even feel it.’

‘So what we got here?’ Boris asked as he joined her on the Hernandez’s driveway.

‘I’m thinking poltergeist,’ she replied, ‘a little girl – and the presence is pretty damn strong too. I don’t suppose Ernie pulled up anything on the computer system?’

Boris shook his head. ‘Nada,’ he said, ‘all theses houses were only built last year. I had a look at the housing records myself.’

‘Huh,’ Tina nodded. ‘Ok, text the Egghead and ask him to run the address through the newspaper archives for the last year – see if he can dig up anything about a little girl, maybe a missing person’s report or a death.’

‘Got it.’

‘Right, the house is back this way. Come on, I’ll introduce you to the Hernandez family.’

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