Witching in a Winter Wonkyland: A Wonky Inn Christmas Cozy Mystery by Jeannie Wycherley

Author:Jeannie Wycherley [Wycherley, Jeannie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bark at the Moon Books
Published: 2019-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

I gestured at Finbarr and he peeped out from behind his tree too. His head swivelled as he checked all around us, pointing his wand into the undergrowth, then looking back at me and shaking his head.

“Where did it go?” I pushed myself upright and walked towards the little clearing.

“Careful, Alf,” Finbarr warned me.

“There’s nothing to be afraid of here,” I said. I glanced down at where I’d discovered the body of Linda Creary. No ghost light. She’d passed over. That was something.

The ground had been well trodden round here, the foliage cut down or beaten down by the police when they’d searched the area. I glanced back at where I’d seen the eyes watching me, Grizzle’s eyes as it had turned out. Behind what had been a large holly bush was a rocky outcrop. Nothing unusual about that, here on the Jurassic coast where the forest eventually meets the sea, but unless my eyes were deceiving me there was a narrow gap in the rocks.

“Finbarr?” I pointed the rocks out to him, and we crept towards them. I extracted the torch from my pocket and pointed it towards the shadowy space.

“It’s a cave of sorts,” Finbarr said, edging up close to the entrance. I shone the torch inside the gap. The narrow entrance went on for some way and I experienced a sudden wave of claustrophobic terror.

“I’m not going in there. No way.”

“I will.” Finbarr reached out to take the torch from me.

I pulled it away from his hand. “Are you crazy? The Beast might be in there.”

“Well we either sit here all night, freezing to death and hoping it will come out, or we go inside and make his acquaintance.”

Or we could leave him to his own devices and hope he doesn’t get himself shot by Talbot-Lloyd the trophy hunter, I thought.

None of these seemed to be appealing options. I sighed and held the torch out to Finbarr.

He gave me the thumbs up and accepted the torch from me. Holding it in one hand, and his wand in the other, he turned sideways and edged into the gap.

“Be careful,” I said. “Don’t make me come in there after you.”

“Never fear. It’ll all be fine,” he said and disappeared.

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