The Halloween House (A Tess and Tilly Cozy Mystery Book 4) by Kathi Daley

Author:Kathi Daley [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathi Daley Books
Published: 2018-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

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By the time we dropped off the animals at my cabin and I’d started a load of laundry, it was after seven o’clock. We decided to head to a local burger joint that featured a good selection of beers and an outdoor deck overlooking the lake. It was crowded, which was to be expected on a Sunday night, but we found a table near the water and settled in with our menus. We were discussing the options when I noticed Jordan Westlake walk onto the deck from the parking area. He appeared to be alone, so I waved to him.

“Are you here alone?” I asked.

“Yes. I don’t really know anyone in town yet, but I’m tired of eating alone in that depressing house.”

“Join us,” I offered. “We haven’t ordered yet, so your timing is perfect.”

Tony scooted his chair around to make room for the one Jordan pulled over.

“Thank you,” he said. “I appreciate the invite. It’ll be nice to have someone to talk to other than the ghosts in the house.”

“Have you seen any?” I wondered.

“Not yet, but the skeleton in the closet seems to indicate at least one person might very well have unresolved issues in it. To be honest, I thought I knew what I was getting in to, and was even prepared to deal with family ghosts, but the skeleton threw me.”

“And you have no idea who it might be?”

“Not a clue.”

“I know of six people who died or went missing while living in the house, and it’s my understanding all but Hillary were buried in the family plot.”

“That’s my understanding as well. And there are five headstones. I checked,” Jordan assured me. “I guess the only way to know for certain that the bodies that are supposed to be buried in the family plot really are is to dig them up, but I thought I’d wait to see what your brother comes up with before going to that extreme.”

“The family history is tragic enough without the added creep factor of a skeleton or dug-up graves,” I agreed.

“Do you know much about the family and the house?” Jordan asked.

“Some,” I said. “Tony and I have been doing some looking around since you moved in. I never really thought much about the house until recently, but now I’m anxious to know what happened there. Everything we know so far is so sad.”

Jordan nodded. “Sad is putting it mildly. Before I inherited the house I wasn’t really interested in my family history. Especially not the Harrington side, because I’m not connected by blood. But once I realized there was a huge house on a large piece of property just waiting for someone to show them some love, I was hooked on both.”

“We were just discussing the history of the place. One of the questions we had dealt with the reason Hartford Harrington moved his family from San Francisco to White Eagle in the first place.”

“As far as I can tell, he made his decision after Hope died.”

“Hope?” I asked.

“Hope was Hillary’s twin sister,” Jordan informed us.

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