The Pine Hill Inn (Ella Daniels Mystery Book 1) by J A Whiting

Author:J A Whiting [Whiting, J A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J. A. Whiting Books and Whitemark Publishing
Published: 2019-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

“What did he want?” Jin asked when Ella sat down with them at the picnic table.

“He talked a little about the case.”

“Very little, I assume.” Jin kept her eyes on the detective watching him as he met up with his friends. “You didn’t share what you know with him?”

“No, I didn’t.” Ella reached into the paper bag for a donut. “We have a meeting with him in a few days. He wants to talk to us about what we do.”

“Don’t give him any hard and fast details. Speak in generalities,” Jin advised.

“We know the drill,” Livvy said.

“Where’s Jack?” Ella asked.

“He’s over at the slide.” Livvy pointed. “He met a friend from preschool.”

Jin had a sour look on her face. “I don’t believe the detective has an honest desire to know about spirit investigations. Be careful what you tell him.”

“Are you picking up specifically on Jonas’s intentions or are you being cautious in general?” Ella glanced over to where the detective was standing with his friends.

“Cautious in general, I guess,” Jin admitted.

Elsie eyed the man. “He’s quite good-looking. I’d meet with him, too.”

“You’re thirty years older than he is,” Jin scolded.

“Physically, yes,” Elsie said. “But not in spirit.”

Livvy and Ella laughed.

“Jonas asked me if I’d seen Leo’s ghost.”

Jin sat up. “He must have been mocking us.”

“I’m not sure. It didn’t feel that way,” Ella said.

“How did you respond?” Livvy questioned.

“I told him there are no such things as ghosts.”

“Good answer.” Livvy took a piece of her sister’s donut. “Did he give you any helpful information about the case?”

“He gave general answers that sounded like he was telling me things, but they were just rote responses without meaning,” Ella said.

Livvy made a face. “Maybe I should put a truth spell on him so when you ask about the case, he’ll have to tell you what he knows.”

“There will be no frivolous casting of spells in this family. That is not how we use our gifts,” Jin scolded. “Anyway, we don’t need his help.”

Elsie gave Jin a little poke with her elbow. “Oh, let Livvy do it.”

Jin glared at her friend and sniffed. “Don’t encourage things like that. We have standards.”

Jack raced over to Livvy. “My friend had to go home. Can we go to the corn maze now?”

“I think that’s a good idea.” Livvy packed up the things on the table. “Why don’t you go get Dad and Ben and Ava. See, they’re right over there.” She pointed to the sand area where the volleyball games were being played.

Jack ran down to retrieve the others, and when they came back up the hill, the group headed to the corn maze.

“There are lots of people and its busy in the maze so don’t run ahead of us,” Livvy cautioned her son.

Everyone got a little map and they entered the puzzle path.

“Wow. Which way should we go?” Jack asked. “There are four choices.”

Ella looked at her sister. “This is kind of like a murder case with leads running off in different directions.”

Livvy nodded. “How do we choose the right path?”

“Trust our instincts?” Ella asked.

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