Dem Bones, Dem Bones: A Paranormal Cozy Animal Mystery (Spellbound Hound Magic and Mystery Book 5) by Jeannie Wycherley

Author:Jeannie Wycherley [Wycherley, Jeannie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bark at the Moon Books
Published: 2023-12-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

With a small rucksack on her back and Toby by her side, Clarissa arrived at the construction site just after 11.15 pm. Dressed in jeans, a black t-shirt and a scruffy pair of trainers, she stood out like a sore thumb.

King Street thronged with people, mostly in their late teens and early twenties. The young women wore scanty dresses with spaghetti straps, and high heels—also with spaghetti straps—while the young men wore smart casual trousers and shirts. They were, for the most part, as Old Joe might have said, the worse for drink.

“The pubs are chucking out,” Clarissa told him. “I expect they’re on their way to the nightclubs.”

Toby wished they’d all pop into one and leave him and Clarissa to it, but word was evidently out. A number of young men were attempting to climb the tall fence or were standing on their mates’ shoulders, trying to see over the other side. Groups of single lads pushed each other around, one coming close to tripping over Toby.

“Watch it!” Toby growled.

“Sorry mate, didn’t see you there!” the young chap apologised, grinning winningly at Clarissa. “Nice dog,” he said. “Is it a boy or a girl?”

Clarissa faked a smile. “Bog off!” she said, pleasantly.

The lad didn’t take offence. Just clumsily stroked Toby’s head and then slithered off after his friends.

Clarissa stopped to watch two young men trying to scale the fence. She began twitching nervously. “The last thing we need is people going in there and confronting a zombie!”

“Zombie!” Another young man had overheard her. He held up his arms and staggered forward. “Zombie! Zombie!”

Clarissa hurriedly moved away, taking Toby with her. They found shelter in a doorway across the road. A pair of small motorcycles zipped up King Street—a pedestrian-only road—each two up, and neither passenger wearing a helmet.

“This is chaos,” grumbled Clarissa. “I can’t tell who genuinely lives here and who doesn’t. Plus, I need to gain entry! I can’t do that while all these people are around.”

“Perhaps we could create a diversion?” Toby suggested.

“Please don’t!” Clarissa jerked his lead in alarm. “I know you. You’ll set fire to the marketplace or—”

“Now there’s an idea.” Toby squinted down the road, wondering where Pippin was hiding out. Maybe she could help him.

“Absolutely not!”

Blue lights flickered in the edge of Toby’s vision, and a police car turned the corner into King Street.

“Here comes trouble!” Toby said, watching as the car travelled slowly up the hill, the heads of the two uniformed occupants swivelling as they clocked the throngs of bystanders. A few seconds later, their car was followed by a second, then as these two parked up, a third blocked the road at the top.

Sun Valley’s finest.

“I didn’t know Sun Valley had this many police officers,” Clarissa whispered. “I wonder if Ed’s here.” She scanned the faces as the officers jumped out of their cars and pulled on their hats. “I don’t think so.”

Toby sniffed the air. “I can’t smell him here.”

“That’s a shame. I might have been able to interview him for my article.

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