Merlin the Magical Fluff (A Hilarious Mystery with a Witchy Cat and his Human Familiar) by Molly Fitz

Author:Molly Fitz [Fitz, Molly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Partridge & Pear Press

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It didn’t take long to find a clear photo of Harold on the company’s Facebook page. Even though Harold’s House of Coffee only had a handful of likes, its former owner wasted no opportunity to get in front of the camera and show everyone how important he fancied himself to be.

“I can work with this,” Merlin informed me when I shared the image with him. “I can’t teleport directly into the morgue, so this little fact-finding mission may take me a while.”

“Why can’t you?” I asked, uneasy at the thought of being away from him—and his magical protections—for an extended period.

“Same reason I took us outside of Luna’s house, then flashed us in through the window. If you’re going someplace you can’t see and don’t know well, you risk getting yourself stuck in a wall or in some other precarious situation,” the novice feline witch explained.

“Oh,” I said stupidly.

“Lesson number four. Magic is much harder to wield than it may look to outsiders,” he announced and cracked his neck to either side.

“I’m beginning to see that.”

A knock sounded on the front door, and I briefly glanced over to it. By the time I turned back to Merlin, he had already vanished.

I groaned and headed to find out what Officer Dash wanted. Because, yes, I already knew it would be her. She’d bothered me so much the past couple of days that I readily recognized the unique cadence of her knock.

Bang. Bang. Tap, tap, tap. BANG!

I flung the door open, reminding myself that if she didn’t behave more professionally in this exchange, I’d be taking a trip to the station to issue a formal complaint. That at least brought me some satisfaction as I came face-to-face with my current least favorite person in all the world.

“The toxicology report came back,” Officer Dash informed me as she hooked a finger into her belt loop.

I crossed my arms and remained planted in the doorway, not allowing her into my house. “And?”

Officer Dash hooked her other thumb in her belt loop and rocked back on her heels. “Gas Line Antifreeze. Not something most people need for a summer in Elderberry Heights. Say, you’re from up north, right?”

“Michigan,” I managed as my stomach roiled. “What’s your point?”

“And is that your car in the driveway there?”

“Yeah.” I definitely did not like where this was headed.

“Huh,” the policewoman said simply.

“C’mon. You can’t honestly think that this proves anything! Antifreeze is readily available. Even here in Southern Georgia, I’m sure.”

Out came that stupid notebook of hers. “Uh-huh. Uh-huh. And how do you happen to know that?”

“I didn’t kill Harold,” I said between gritted teeth.

“Sure, you didn’t.” She smiled. “I’ll be back with a search warrant. Oh, and I wouldn’t leave town if I were you.”

Fantastic.

I slammed the door shut as soon as Officer Dash sauntered away. She looked like the cat who was about to eat the canary, so happy with her upcoming kill she couldn’t see anything else… Like the fact that I was not guilty!

My phone buzzed in my pocket, and I took it out to find a next text from Kelley.

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