Halloween Mourning

Everly Dupree had dealt with ghosts before. Witches were another matter—especially dead ones.

Mooselick River’s annual Halloween festival is supposed to be the town’s favorite kind of chaos: costumes, candy, hay bales, and enough committee decisions to make Everly Dupree consider hiding behind a pumpkin.

Then one of the festival attractions becomes a crime scene.

The dead woman is part of a coven that’s been practicing quietly in Mooselick River for years, hidden in plain sight until murder drags it into the open. By morning, rumors are multiplying, Sheriff Ernie Polk is looking hard at the most obvious suspect, and half the town has suddenly become an expert on witchcraft.

Typically for Everly, the dead witch isn’t ready to leave, and she wants justice.

As Ernie’s investigation tightens around the easiest explanation, Everly keeps tugging at threads that lead somewhere else entirely. The killer must be hiding in plain sight.

Because in Mooselick River, the most dangerous people aren’t always the ones dressed like monsters.

They’re the ones nobody thinks to fear.