Ghostly Apparitions (A Ghost Hunter P.I. Mystery Book 1) by Aubrey Harper

Author:Aubrey Harper [Harper, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-15T22:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Bart Samuel’s secretary was a good-looking woman in her mid thirties. I gave him a look that said as much. He shrugged his shoulders. “It’s not a crime to appreciate beauty, is it?” was all he would say to that.

Donna Smith, his secretary, was actually crying her eyes out.

“He was a good man. He didn’t deserve to go out like that.”

We were sitting at a local coffee shop. Donna had had enough of the inn and needed a change of scenery. “I don’t know what I’ll do now. This job was my whole life.”

“Tell her not to worry,” Bart said. “I left a little something for her in my will.”

I relayed the message.

Donna looked confused and then a hint of a sad smile played across her face. “He always said he would. I’ve been working for the man for almost a decade. I just wish it didn’t have to happen at all. Who would do such a thing? If you can talk to him, can’t you just ask him?”

I shook my head. “They came up behind him. He didn’t see who it was.”

Donna cried even harder now.

Kane put a comforting hand on her shoulder. “There, there, it’s going to be all right. We’re working on catching whoever did this as we speak. That’s why we need your help.”

Donna’s face hardened as she moved out of Kane’s grasp. “You should have prevented this,” she spat in his direction.

“No one could have predicted this,” Kane said carefully. “Besides, it looks like the Keep Silver Bells Green crowd wasn’t involved after all.”

“What do you mean?” Donna asked him. “Those people hated him and what he did. He was just trying to bring this town to the present.”

I had a few choice words about that, but I decided to hold them back. There was no need for me to berate a grieving woman.

“It appears the killer must have been a lot closer to him than we thought,” I said. “They stole the binder with all the numbers in it. Do you have any copies by any chance?”

Donna’s face went from confusion to resolution. “I always kept copies of everything,” she said. “Even though Mr. Samuel explicitly told me not to, but I just wanted to have things in case something happened to the original. I keep the files on my personal computer. It’s password protected to the hilt.”

“Where’s your computer right now?”

“It’s in my room, at the inn.”

We left our coffees half drunk and quickly walked back to the inn. The beauty of a small town like Silver Bells was that you could walk pretty much anywhere.

Thankfully, the laptop was exactly where it was supposed to be. For the minutes it took us to walk to the inn I had all kinds of fears running through my head that it would have been stolen too.

Donna punched in her password while Rebecca and Bart watched. Kane and I stood back and gave her space.

“Here it is,” she finally said. “It’s all here. I updated it a couple of days ago.

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