Sunshine Over Bluebell Cliff by Della Galton

Author:Della Galton [Galton, Della]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781838890001
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Published: 2020-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

During the second week of September, there was another minor incident. The fire alarm went off one afternoon, which interrupted a recording taking place in the studio. It wouldn’t have mattered because the studio was soundproof, but the staff had to interrupt at a critical point, just in case there actually was a fire.

The musicians, who were sending an audition tape to a record label, were three quarters of the way through their first perfect take – of course they were – out of sixteen imperfect takes, and they were none too pleased when Clara told them they’d have to leave the building. Particularly when they later discovered that the alarm had been set off by someone who’d opened a fire door on the second-floor landing so they could sneak out for a vape.

‘Why they didn’t just go downstairs, like everyone else does, I’ll never know,’ Clara had said when she realised what had happened. But as the culprit was one of the musician’s partners and not a random guest, at least she could be sure that there had been no hint of sabotage going on.

Sabotage had also been ruled out when all the hairdryers on the first floor developed faults and blew their fuses one after the other. Phil Grimshaw did some research online and discovered that they’d been part of a faulty batch that Kate had happened to buy during the Bluebell’s refurbishment, and that there was actually a manufacturer’s recall going on.

‘My mum had a tumble dryer that got recalled once,’ Ellie May had said in amazement. ‘But I didn’t know it happened with hairdryers. I could do with a new hairdryer.’ She had gone off hopefully to check her dryer at home.

There was also the mysterious incident of the intruder on the roof. This happened when Clara wasn’t on duty, but she got the complete rundown from Keith when she got in the next day.

‘I’ve had a very exciting night,’ he said, looking up from his place behind reception when she arrived.

‘What kind of exciting?’ Clara said, stopping abruptly by the desk and smoothing down her hair, which a brisk clifftop breeze had done a good job of mussing up on the short journey between her car and reception. ‘It’s windy out there today.’

‘I was aware of the inclement weather.’ Keith flicked over a page in front of him and cleared his throat.

Clara helped herself to one of the individually wrapped mint imperials from the bowl they kept there. She had recently stipulated that these should be sugar-free. ‘Tell me more,’ she said, putting it in her mouth and screwing up her face as the mint’s saccharine sweetness hit her tongue. They were going to have to go back to sugar.

If Keith said it was exciting, then it would be worth hearing about. He could go on a bit, but he wasn’t a drama queen.

He took a sip of the black coffee that kept him awake. He drank it by the bucketload and he didn’t mind if it was hot or cold.

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