“I intended to see what he wanted, but by the time I made it downstairs and opened the front door, he was gone. I walked around the outside of the house twice, but saw no sign of him other than tracks in the snow, which led up the hillside to Mount Moriah.”
“Crap.” I blew out a breath. “You know what this means, right? Dominick is out of patience and I have to hunt down his stupid lidérc sooner rather than later.”
“No, we have to hunt down his lidérc.” He looked my way for a second before returning his focus on the snow-covered road. “We’re a team, remember?”
“I have a feeling this is going to get really hairy fast.”
“Great.” He spared me a grin. “That’s exactly how I like my women—hairy and fast.”
I chuckled, watching the trees go by out the window. Pink Floyd faded, replaced by AC/DC’s hard-core riffs.
“Okay, it’s official. This song list is total hogwash. ‘Back in Black’ is always in the top one hundred if not top fifty. I’ve lost all faith in this radio station.”
Doc hit a button and the stereo went dark. The crunch of tires on snow filled the cab. “What’s really bothering you, Violet?”
Dominick Masterson’s handsome face flickered through my thoughts, making me grit my teeth. That asshole needed to stay away from Aunt Zoe. “Where’s that damned lidérc hiding?”
Doc’s brow furrowed. “A more worrisome question is how in the hell are we going to catch a parasitic, soul-sucking Hungarian devil?”
“I have an idea about that.” An old co-worker in the Executioner business had given me a tip on hunting lidérc a short time ago.
“Oh, yeah? Let’s hear it.”
“For starters, we’re going to need some fresh bait.” I grimaced out the window at the picturesque winter scene. “As in the non-human kind.”
The End … for now
A quick note from Ann:
If you’d like to read about Quint’s adventures down in Mexico while searching for Dr. Hughes at the last Maya dig site where the archaeologist was seen, check out LOOK WHAT THE WIND BLEW IN, the first book in my ongoing Dig Site Mystery Series.
Also, be sure to catch up with Natalie’s cousins, the Morgan sisters, down in Arizona in my Jackrabbit Junction Mystery Series. Word on the street is that more crazy high jinks are coming soon from their neck of the Sonoran Desert. With Natalie heading their way, you’re not going to want to miss what happens next at the Dancing Winnebago R.V. Park!
AUNT ZOE’S WHISKEY SLUSH RECIPE
Ingredients:
Water — 4¼ cup
Sugar — ½ cup
Frozen lemonade — 6 ounces
Frozen orange juice — 6 ounces
Whiskey — 1½ cups
Instructions:
1 — Heat 3¼ cups of water to boiling and then add ½ cup of sugar. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
2 — Add frozen lemonade and frozen orange juice.
3 — Add 1 cup of cool water.
4 — Mix in 1½ cups of whiskey.
5 — Freeze until slushy.
Party time:
1 — Fill a glass half full of whiskey slush.
2 — Add 7-UP.
3 — Enjoy!
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Books in the Deadwood Mystery Series
WINNER of the 2010 Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense
WINNER of the 2011 Romance Writers of America® Golden Heart Award for Best Novel with Strong Romantic Elements
Welcome to Deadwood—the Ann Charles version. The world I have created is a blend of present day and past, of fiction and non-fiction. What’s real and what isn’t is for you to determine as the series develops, the characters evolve, and I write the stories line by line. I will tell you one thing about the series—it’s going to run on for quite a while, and Violet Parker will have to hang on and persevere through the crazy adventures I have planned for her. Poor, poor Violet. It’s a good thing she has a lot of gumption to keep her going!
Books in the Deadwood Shorts Series
The Deadwood Shorts collection includes short stories featuring the characters of the Deadwood Mystery series. Each tale not only explains more of Violet’s history, but also gives a little history of the other characters you know and love from the series. Rather than filling the main novels in the series with these short side stories, I’ve put them into a growing Deadwood Shorts collection for more reading fun.
The Jackrabbit Junction Mystery Series
Bestseller in Women Sleuth Mystery and Romantic Suspense
Welcome to the Dancing Winnebagos R.V. Park. Down here in Jackrabbit Junction, Arizona, Claire Morgan and her rabble-rousing sisters are really good at getting into trouble—BIG trouble (the land your butt in jail kind of trouble). This rowdy, laugh-aloud mystery series is packed with action, suspense, adventure, and relationship snafus. Full of colorful characters and twisted up plots, the stories of the Morgan sisters will keep you wondering what kind of a screwball mess they are going to land in next.
The Dig Site Mystery Series
Welcome to the jungle—the steamy Maya jungle that is, filled with ancient ruins, deadly secrets, and quirky characters. Quint Parker, renowned photojournalist (and lousy amateur detective), is in for a whirlwind of adventure and suspense as he and archaeologist Dr. Angélica García get tangled up in mysteries from the past and present in exotic dig
