Spooky Skeleton by Addison Creek

Author:Addison Creek [Creek, Addison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cozy, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
Amazon: B07DP6Q9YT
Published: 2018-06-11T05:00:00+00:00

The night was going very well. We had a good turnout for a Thursday evening. The good thing about having the haunted house up and running was that I was too busy to think about what Grant might have been up two these past couple of days.

Now and then I left my post selling tickets to check on the supernaturals from Down Below. They were having a fabulously good time. They loved scaring people. I wondered if that had anything to do with their chosen professions. A thief could be quite scary, after all.

I decided that at some point, I might tell Jefferson Judge that if he needed to give the supernaturals Down Below something to do, scaring people was definitely an option. Just as long as they didn’t break too many laws.

It was nearing midnight, and I was so tired I was considering quitting early and just going up to bed. I’d have to get the extra supernaturals back Down Below first, but that wouldn’t take long. The stream of visitors had slowed, so if I left now I wouldn’t be missed. Lizzie was there, and she was determined not to leave. As usual, she wanted to be wherever Kip was, and he was still working.

I was about to tell her that I was going to bed when I heard a strange noise outside. The fact that I thought it was outside was unusual in itself, since it had to be a pretty loud noise to be heard inside the walls of the mansion. We usually heard only thunder, and occasionally a car driving up or a horn blowing in the distance.

I kept selling tickets for a few more minutes, telling myself I had just imagined whatever I had heard.

No, there it was again. And again and again and again, until finally I stopped to listen. Luckily, at this point there was no one in line to see my confusion.

When I asked Lizzie to cover for me, she rolled her eyes but agreed. I hurried to the gift shop and found that Pep had already closed down and was just cleaning up. I got her to come with me, and we tracked down Lark. The three of us grabbed some jackets and headed for the kitchen door, hoping to avoid running into any guests who might still be in the haunted house.

As we neared the back door, I heard the noise again. It was definitely something howling.

“Did you hear that?” I asked my cousins as we hurried out into the night.

“Yes, what is that? It isn’t even the full moon,” said Lark. If she sounded worried, she had a right to be. I had never heard howling filled with such pain before.

“Could it be coyotes?” Pep said.

“It could be coyotes like I could actually be a swan,” said Lark. “Coyotes don’t sound like that. We have them all the time, and that definitely isn’t a coyote’s call.”

“It was just an idea. I don’t see why you have to get all offended.

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