Pine Lake Inn Cozy Mystery Box Set 3 by K J Emrick

Author:K J Emrick [Emrick, K J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: South Coast Publishing
Published: 2020-05-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

I can’t believe this. It was right here. It was right here!

Pushing aside receipts and the car owner’s manual and a handful of napkins doesn’t materialize the manila envelope with the note inside. I knew it couldn’t, because it wasn’t like there was much space inside the little glove box for it to be hiding, but I had to try.

“I don’t understand,” I say to Kevin. That’s the understatement of the year, that is. First, someone gets into my locked hotel room to try to steal the note and the bottle with it. Now someone has actually stolen the note, right out of a locked glove box, inside of a locked car.

Who’s doing this, the ghost of Houdini?

Oh, snap. Please don’t let it be that. I’ve got trouble enough with living thieves.

Reflexively, I look up at the rearview mirror. For just a moment, in the periphery of my vision, I thought that I saw a pair of hazel eyes watching me.

There’s no one there this time. Just my own shocked expression.

“Er, Mom?” Kevin asks. “Where’s the note?”

I drop into the passenger seat, feeling more than a little defeated. “It’s gone, Kevin. Just like that. How are we supposed to prove anything even happened now? The bottle’s gone, the note’s gone, the police in Blue Laguna don’t seem to care...”

My train of thought abruptly halted on that point. The police in Blue Laguna! That was it!

“Come on,” I say to Kevin, jumping up out of the seat and slamming the door behind me just as hard as I could, just because I felt like it. “We need to make a phone call.”

“A call? A call to who? Mom, you’re not going to do some sort of crazy séance to call on Mabel’s ghost, are you?”

“What? No, of course not.” I didn’t do séances. I have a friend over in the States who knows all about that, but from what she’s told me, I’m just as happy to let the ghosts come to me on their own time. “Not that kind of call. This is an actual call to a real live person.”

“To who?”

We were already back at the door of the Inn, and now I raced across the front room to the registration desk where we kept the business phone. “We’re gonna call Officer Halloway. Looks like the police in Blue Laguna are going to be helpful after all!”

There’s no one at the front desk. Danni was covering for me while I was away, but she wasn’t scheduled to come in today until four o’clock. I can’t expect the poor girl to work twenty-four hours a day, after all. The rest of the staff knows to answer the phone if it rings and take care of any of the guest’s needs whenever Rosie and I aren’t here.

Grabbing up the receiver for the phone, I hold it in the crook of my shoulder while I fish in my pockets for the business card Officer Halloway had left me. Didn’t think I’d ever use it but I’d kept it just the same.

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