ShriekWeek
Hauntings in the Garden
A Cozy Mystery by: Anne Knol
website: Anne Knol
Twitter@AnneKnol1
It’s hard to fit in when you’re suspected of murder. It’s even harder to lay past ghosts to rest.
Events organiser Maggie Ballater has a new career, a new Island home and a new life and intends to make the most of it. But two things stand in her way. One is the dangerously attractive guitarist who brings back past memories she’d rather forget. The other is the inexplicable murder of the lead actor in her ShriekWeek pageant.
Bram Jenkins wants to clear his name after being imprisoned for a crime he swears he did not commit. He has no time to be distracted by an opinionated woman he suspects of working for his enemy.
Solving the ShriekWeek murder means they both have to face up to the past before they can lay their ghosts to rest and find out whether they have a future.
Excerpt:
She felt rather than saw someone watching her.
Breath caught in her throat, but there was nothing to be frightened of. Bram leant propped on the door jamb, his right ankle crossed slackly over the left.
“Sorry I’m late finishing.” She hated how teenage she sounded. “Are you waiting to set up class in here?”
“Just came to see you.” He wandered in, picked up worksheets and laid them down again, stopped at the dominoes and started matching the words to the pictures.
She had to apologize. She had rehearsed what she was going to say often enough. She cleared her throat, suddenly thick with nerves. “I wanted to say sorry about last night. I didn’t mean—”
He waved a hand dismissively. “No worries.
Forgotten.” But his eyes when she looked were
shuttered and told a different story.
Thanks, Eliza. Honored to be featured in your blog. Looking forward to reading the Witch's Tattoo tonight. Love these mini-novellas. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful to meet you and before the end of this week I hope to read and review each one of these haunting [lol] tales.
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