A Shot in the Bark: A Cozy Canine Caper (Paws and Poltergeists Book 5) by Mara Webb

Author:Mara Webb [Webb, Mara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

Nate let himself into the house, a bag in his hand that filled the air with the scent of fresh deli sandwiches. My hero.

He'd also brought a large bag of potato chips because my phone call to him earlier had sounded unhinged - 'Barnaby's been killed by a mushroom and I have so many Magpie papers!' - so he'd figured calories may bring me back down to earth so I could explain.

As we started eating, I managed to tell Nate everything that had happened at the hospital so that he was up to speed. I was impressed by how quickly I'd gotten the information out considering that I was looking at Silverwood's Chief of Police leaning gingerly over a plate to avoid dripping mustard on his police shirt. Even now he was devastatingly good-looking.

"I agree," he said once I'd finished talking. "It's unlikely to be a coincidence that he wrote the mushroom thing in a book, then died that way. Is he here now?"

"He's out there," I replied, pointing out the window towards the backyard. Barnaby was floating around the trees looking for who-knows-what while we ate our lunch. "He's calmer than I would have expected for a guy that just died. He told me himself that he didn't go picking wild mushrooms and eating them at random, so he's been given the poison. That's murder, right?"

"It sounds like it. Doesn't seem like the type of thing that happens by accident, but I should keep an open mind until we have more facts," Nate said, reaching for his coffee. "I'll give you a trillion dollars if you wait until I'm out of the country to tell Marie what happened. She's going to be a nightmare about this."

"A trillion? Hmm… are you low-balling me?" I smirked.

Fluke was curled up by Nate's feet as a mark of respect for the guy who ordered extra pastrami just so my pampered pooch could get a tasty snack. I should get people to lift that dog off the ground like I'd had to earlier, maybe then they'd think twice about giving him so much food.

"What are you doing with all this stuff, then?" Nate asked, thumbing over his shoulder at the two cardboard boxes I'd dropped by the dining table.

"I need to speak to his publicist or a next of kin," I shrugged. "There's a woman I've seen around town a few times that seems to have been associated with him somehow. This is all his investigation stuff about the Midnight Magpie, you've probably copies of all this at the station."

"It's a cold case," he replied. "We have some files in storage, but honestly no one was looking into any of this until Barnaby started emailing me about it. It became a local legend then drifted out of people's minds."

"It never left mine!" Barnaby announced, floating through the kitchen wall and marveling at his ability to do so. "Wow, no more locked doors getting in my way. I think my next stop will be the

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