What's a Ghoul to Do by Victoria Laurie

Author:Victoria Laurie [Laurie, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Contemporary, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Fantasy, ghost
ISBN: 9780451220905
Google: 91KrWiptpFUC
Amazon: B0072Q4HCC
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2007-03-14T23:00:00+00:00

Fifteen minutes later I was blowing on a cup of tea down in the kitchen. Steven sat numbly on one of the stools by the island, his thoughts clearly elsewhere. “Here,” I said, putting the teacup under his nose. “Drink this. It’ll help.”

“It was him,” he muttered as he took the tea. “That was my grandfather.”

I nodded. “Looks like it. So what we have here are two ghosts that need our help to cross over.”

“I need to know what happened to him first,” Steven insisted.

I sighed and looked into my own cup of tea. “I told you I would try. But it isn’t my top priority.”

“Why can’t we just wait until we get our answers and then you can cross him over?”

“Because, being trapped between worlds, Andrew is suffering. He’s probably frightened or confused or even guiltridden. My top priority is seeing that he moves on as quickly as possible. If he did in fact kill himself, then this is the right thing to do. If someone pushed him off the roof, well, that may be one for the police.”

Steven’s head snapped up. “You said pushed. Do you think Maureen could have pushed him like she pushed Gilley?”

“Anything’s possible. And if she was responsible for Andrew’s death, there’s not a lot we can do about it.”

“Can’t you lock her up in her window?”

“You mean her portal? I just don’t get the feeling she’s a negative energy, Steven. I mean, I know she took a tug on Gilley, but I’m sensing there was more to this story than we know right now. I think she had a reason for doing what she did, but I can’t figure out what it is yet.”

“If she murdered my Papa, I want you to lock her up.”

“What am I, the cosmic jailer?” I shot at him, and when he looked offended I softened my tone. “I really think it’s better if we try to gather as many facts as possible before we make a conclusion. For now, I’m not going to look at Maureen as a negative entity, at least not until we know for certain one way or another, okay?”

Steven nodded. “Okay.”

“Now,” I said purposefully. “We need a plan of attack. My guess is that Maureen has exerted enough energy for the night. It takes quite a bit of strength to give us the little show she put on for us upstairs. And that goes for your grandfather as well.”

“I’m confused,” Steven said, scratching his head. “What is all this talk of exerting energy?”

I sighed. “Ghosts can walk around among us without being seen or felt at all. It doesn’t take a lot of energy to do that, but once they try to take other forms, that’s when they amp up the wattage, so to speak.”

“Huh?”

I tried again. “There are three forms most ghosts take when they want to get our attention: orbs, shadows, and full view. Most ghosts, as I said, travel around unseen and unnoticed for a period of time, but eventually they may try to make contact.

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