The Witches of Mystic Springs (A Mystic Springs Paranormal Cozy Mystery) by Mona Marple

Author:Mona Marple [Marple, Mona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

Both parties agree that after the expiry of this period of three (3) months, there will be no right to withdraw and this contract will be legally binding.

“Hold on,” I muttered. “This can’t be a coincidence.”

Sid Snipe had signed a contract giving him a right to pull out within three months, and been killed right towards the deadline. It sounded like there was a thread in there that I could pull to unravel the truth, but I couldn’t find it.

What good was he dead? Surely, his death would mean that he couldn’t use that right to withdraw? Was that the point? Could Sid Snipe have been having doubts about the Academy change? Did someone shut him up so that he couldn’t pull out of the deal?

It seemed far-fetched. Everyone I knew was angry about the Academy deal. Sid Snipe had lost no end of friends because of it.

Maybe it was a coincidence, after all.

His wife discovering his affair and killing him in a blind rage was much more realistic. I remembered a statistic I’d heard from a true crime documentary that Crystal and I had separately watched in our own homes, texting each other the whole way through.

Most people know their killers.

At the time, I was sure they’d got that piece of information wrong. Back to front. I believed the exact opposite to be true.

I’d grown up being told to be scared of the bogeyman, the strangers who lurked in dark alleyways, people who would hate me for what I was. It was the unknown that I had to fear.

Nope, that’s definitely true, Crystal had replied to my stunned text message at the time.

It had been a defining moment for me, the day that I first considered that it may not be the strangers I should be scared of, but the people I knew. The people who were meant to love and look after me.

The world had never seemed a more scary place than it did that day.

Lizette Anderson-Pugh was a drunk, a woman isolated from her husband’s work world and looked down on by his colleagues. He’d built his world around Winifred’s, returning home to give her whatever leftovers he had still in him.

For her to snap and kill him might seem unreasonable, but I’ll bet she felt differently when she uncovered his very public long-term affair. I could almost feel her humiliation.

I took a deep breath and turned to leave the room, then had the distinct feeling that I wasn’t alone in there.

A shadow stood before the wall. Menacing eyes glinted at me in the dark.

“Who’s there?” I called, but it was no good. The shadow snickered at me, a mean twist of a wide mouth, and began to advance across the room towards me.

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