How the Ghost Stole Christmas (Murder By Design Book 4) by Erin McCarthy

Author:Erin McCarthy [McCarthy, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-16T18:30:00+00:00

So when I told William I would get back to him on Monday, I meant after I had my usual work day. Which on this Monday consisted of staging a house that was about to go up for sale in three days. The homeowner was an investor and together we had decided to stage in grays and blues and whites focusing more on texture than color. I had holiday-ish accents like a mercury glass tree for the fireplace mantle and a white feathery wreath for the dining room. Silver pinecones in a bowl. That sort of thing. Subtle. Inviting.

You can picture yourself living here. That was my job.

The rental delivery guys had already dropped off the furniture so I was alone.

Though not entirely because William was following me around, pestering me with questions. “So why are you the only person who can see me?” he asked.

“Because I’m just lucky that way.”

He tilted his head. “Sarcasm doesn’t actually suit you.”

I moved the candlesticks I had placed on an end table. Too tall. “Criticizing me doesn’t make me want to help you, you know.”

“Don’t be touchy. You seem like a nice girl, that’s all.”

“Thanks.” I don’t like to work and chitchat. I want to be left alone in the zone but clearly that was not happening today.

“Did you talk to Cindy?” he asked.

“I don’t have Cindy’s number. Nor would I have any idea what to say to her. Besides, what do you think Cindy knows?”

“I don’t know.” William paced across the living room.

“Let me ask you a question,” I said, standing up straight and eyeing him. “How do you guys know how to find me? Like how did you know to appear here, in this particular house?”

William looked taken aback. “To be honest, I have no idea. I just think, check in on Bailey, and then bam. I’m wherever you are.”

“That’s profoundly disturbing.”

“If that’s the most disturbing thing going on in your life I think you’re doing all right.”

Interesting. And not something I wanted to pursue. “Anyway, I can’t call Cindy unless they ID your body.”

My phone buzzed in the pocket of my flare leg jeans. I pulled it out. It was Marner.

Dental records positively ID’d the body as William Anthony, missing Clause, according to ME.

Seriously?

It was like William had conjured the text up from nothing.

“It’s you in the slide. Dental records confirmed it.”

“Well, of course it is. I mean I know it’s me.”

“But no one else knew that.” That seemed obvious to me. I sighed. A deep drawn-out Marner sigh. “Do you want me to call Cindy and tell her?”

“Yes. Before the police call her.”

Cause of death? I texted back to Marner.

Blunt force trauma.

“Someone hit you over the head,” I told William. No point in sugarcoating it. He already knew he had been murdered. “Do you think it was an accident? Like a robbery gone wrong or something? You never actually even told me where it happened.” I had just been assuming the ballroom but that made no sense. That slide was something that Lauren had in storage.

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