The Case of the Sinister Spirit (Jane Gallows Witch Private Investigator Book 1) by Leighann Dobbs

Author:Leighann Dobbs [Dobbs, Leighann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: NEW
Publisher: Leighann Dobbs Publishing
Published: 2018-04-11T07:00:00+00:00

As I turned slowly, I briefly wondered if I would be joining Moe as a ghost in my own office.

“Trespassing again?”

As I looked into Charlie’s dark eyes, visions of his murder vignettes danced through my head. Had he already made one featuring me lying here in the woods with my chest blown open by a shotgun? Even worse than letting him sneak up on me, I had left my purse on the stone wall when Jinx had interrupted me. I didn’t have any chocolate available to cast a spell and get myself out of this.

I decided to take a confrontational tack. Maybe I could shame him into confessing and giving himself up. Okay, probably not. He’d already killed one person and wouldn’t hesitate to kill me too, but I didn’t have any better ideas. I wondered briefly what Moe would do. Maybe I should have listened to his lessons a little more carefully.

I held the cord up between us. “What’s this? Electricity leading straight from your house to Bud’s barn.”

His eyes flicked from my hand to the barn. “What of it? This is my property. I can have electricity leading anywhere I want.”

“Yeah, but it didn’t stay on your property. It went right over the wall to Bud’s.”

Charlie scowled. “That portion of the land is my property. I own five feet past that stone wall there.” He gestured with the barrel of the shotgun to the wall before swiveling it back to point at my chest. “What exactly are you doing here again? You’re working for Bud’s sons, aren’t you?”

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Jinx skulking along in the woods behind Charlie. Was he going behind him to make a sneak attack from behind? And here I’d thought he’d run off to save his own hide.

“Why would I be working for Bud’s sons?”

“You know why. You’re a private investigator. Land dispute.” He jerked the gun in the direction of Bud’s property again. “Those kids want to sell off Bud’s land to a big developer. But they need my portion over near the stone wall ’cause it gives them the amount of frontage necessary for the zoning laws. Maybe they sent you to try to figure out how to finagle it away from me. Well, I won’t have it! All I wanted was peace and quiet out here.”

“What makes you think that?”

“I saw Bernie Alcorn out there with his surveying equipment just last week.”

Surveying equipment? Was someone surveying the land to try to figure out where the buildings had been in Mary Dunbuddy’s time? Maybe someone had a lead on where the treasure was and needed equipment to pinpoint the exact location. Or maybe Bud or his kids did want to sell the land. A ghost would have put a crimp in Bud’s plans to sell. Had that been the real reason behind hiring me?

“Is that why you killed Bud? Was he selling out?”

Charlie frowned. “Bud? No, he’d never sell.”

Jinx had skulked up behind Charlie. I could see him contemplating his options.

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