Give a Ghost a Bad Name (A Reaper Witch Mystery Book 6) by Elle Adams

Author:Elle Adams [Adams, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

9

The universe disagreed. A sleepless Allie greeted me at the desk when I came downstairs the next morning. “Esther called again.”

“You’ve got to be joking,” I said. “What did she say?”

“She claimed that once she’s done sorting out her husband’s funeral and affairs, she’ll return her attention to getting justice for him.” Her mouth was set in a grim line. “I don’t think she’s going to let this one drop.”

“Has she heard about Parker’s death, do you know?”

“She didn’t mention him, but she did say she had an interview arranged with the press.”

I swore. “She must have come up with a backup plan. Or booked several interviews back-to-back.”

Evidently, she hadn’t made the connection between Parker’s death and her husband’s demise, but that didn’t matter if she remained fixated on the inn regardless of any available evidence.

“That’s what I thought,” she said. “I didn’t want to be the one to bring up the subject of Parker’s blog, given that you intended to go to interrupt the interview yourself.”

I grimaced. “I know. What were we supposed to do, though, let him get away with provoking the Reaper Council?”

Allie studied my face. “It wasn’t them who silenced him, was it?”

“Definitely not.” I suppressed a reflexive shudder. “They don’t kill the living unless they have a very good reason. That’s one of our laws too. Most likely they’d have pressured him to take down the post, but they’d have come to the inn first. We had a lucky escape.”

There was no point in downplaying the issue: the crime of harbouring a rogue Reaper was a margin higher than posting a blog post about it, though both would draw the Council’s ire. I hoped Esther hadn’t read the post before it disappeared. The last thing we needed was her spreading the same rumour to every news outlet and blog willing to interview her.

Allie sucked in a breath. “You think the victims both died of the same cause, don’t you? They were murdered.”

“Not by the typical kind of murderer, but yes, I do.” Coincidences were a rare thing in my experience, especially when it came to the dead. “Most spirits aren’t even strong enough to poke a person in the arm, let alone induce a heart attack, so I can’t think how they did it.”

“Esther doesn’t know anything about ghosts either,” she said. “I wish there was a way to resolve this without giving her another reason to target us.”

“Same here.” Despite my resolve to keep my attention on tonight’s upcoming ghost tour, the subject had remained in the back of my mind since yesterday, including the mystery of how our disembodied killer had got from Hawkwood Hollow all the way to Littlewood. And if Esther herself had been in Littlewood at the time, then she was the one connecting factor between the two victims. “If she was willing to have a civilised conversation, we might have been able to help her. Instead, we have two people dead, and she’s intent on pursuing the wrong target.”

Allie cleared her throat.

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