Bone Voyage by HP Mallory

Author:HP Mallory
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, midlife crisis, paranormal womens fiction, pwf, midlife fiction, womens midlife
Publisher: HP Mallory

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The next day, I found myself visiting the Louisiana Division of the New Orleans Public Library. It housed all the city records going back to 1927. My hope was to find some connection between Guarda and Peter, possibly having to do with a real estate transaction. Of course, I could have just approached Peter and asked him about the nature of his relationship with her, but I was leery to do so for a few reasons. First, I still couldn’t make up my mind about whether or not to be fully honest with Peter about the nature of Adele’s murder, and so I wanted to wait and reach out to him after I made a decision. Second, I figured if he were aware of an affair between Guarda and him, (or at least that one-nighter), he might not exactly be thrilled to tell me about it. And third, I didn’t want to mention Guarda’s name if I didn’t have to. I readily recalled how he’d bristled at Guarda’s name when I’d first made his acquaintance. Something which now took on new meaning … maybe he was aware of their affair?

Either way, in this case, I decided it was just better to do the research all by myself.

The Louisiana Division of the public library boasted incredibly shiny floors, overhead fluorescent lights and row upon row of bookshelves and book stacks.

I must confess having not visited the library much in my time; therefore, I have no comment as to whether it changed much over the ensuing years, Drake announced. Whenever we ventured out of the house, he made it his business to inform me about how our destinations formerly appeared when he was still alive. He was better than a walking history tour, and no earbud necessary!

Maybe this library isn’t that old? I asked. Heading down one of the aisles of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, I prayed the paranormal librarian from Ghostbusters wouldn’t be waiting for me at the other end. Luckily, having blocked my sixth sense after the harrowing situation in Peter’s house, I couldn’t see or interact with the spirit world at the moment. Which was just as well. I really didn’t need any more frightening distractions at the moment.

Come, now, ma minette, Drake scoffed at me, this library has been in operation since the late eighteen hundreds!

Imagine that! I responded absentmindedly as I decided I had no idea where to find the information I was after. I turned around and strolled back toward the front desk to ask for help. As soon as I approached the elderly woman sitting behind the desk, who looked remarkably like the librarian ghost, she peered up through the overly thick spectacles that rested on the bony ridge of her nose.

“May I help you?” she asked in a nasal tone.

“I hope so,” I answered, pasting on a pleasant smile. “I’m trying to find some real estate transactions from the late 1950s recording the sales of both houses and land.”

She nodded immediately, as if my request weren’t an unusual one.

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