by Morgana Best
My phone rang. It was still diverted. “Good morning, sorry, afternoon, Witch Woods Funeral Home. How may I help you?”
Basil and Ian were both looking at me expectantly after I hung up. “As you probably guessed from hearing one side of the conversation, that was the escort agency,” I told them. “Now that Mom’s been cleared of Frank’s murder, they want me to conduct a themed funeral for him.”
“And the theme is?” Basil asked.
“Casanova.” Ian looked puzzled, so I added, “The famous Casanova, you know, from Venice.”
“I’ll go as a gondola,” Ian said happily.
Mom emerged from a door, followed by Detectives Prescott and Wilkinson. Their faces were pale and slightly green. Both were clutching their heads.
“A funeral for Tom?” Mom clapped her hands with delight. “And you said a Casanova theme? Was Casanova a famous escort?”
I was at a loss how to explain it. “Not exactly, but sort of. Haven’t you heard of him? He lived in the eighteenth century.”
“I didn’t know they had escorts back in those times.” Mom shrugged and tapped her chin thoughtfully. “Yes, there were no electronic devices in the eighteenth century, so there must have been a need for escorts. I’ll help you with his funeral, Laurel.”
I scratched my forehead. “Thanks, Mom, but I didn’t think you’d want to go to a Casanova themed funeral. I think he was a polygamist.”
Mom pursed her lips in a gesture of disapproval. “We don’t get many of that denomination around here, but we all can’t be Pentecostal. I don’t condemn other denominations, even though they’re all going to hell. It’s not my place to condemn those heathens. You know I don’t judge, Laurel.”
Basil snatched my hand. “Let’s get out of here!”
I didn’t need telling twice. “Where are we going?”
“Does it matter?”
“No!”
We hurried from the police station and drove away from Mom as fast as we could, heading for sanity. “I’m trying to push the visions of Ian dressed as a gondola from my mind,” I said. “I don’t even want to think what Mom will wear.” I shuddered.
Basil rested his hand on my knee, causing my body to tremble. “Think about wine, chocolate, and ice cream instead. I know a great place, and it’s not far from here. And then we’ll go back to my home. I’ll cook you dinner, and…” His words hung on the air.
I smiled with delight and relief, and leaned back in my seat. This was a happy ending, after all. This whole adventure had started badly, but it was ending with wine, ice cream, chocolate—and Basil.
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Next Book in this Series .
(Witch Woods Funeral Home Book 5)
Coming 2017!
Other books by Morgana Best .
Miss Spelled (The Kitchen Witch Book 1)
Amelia Spelled has had a bad week. Her boyfriend dumps her when she inadvertently gives him food poisoning; her workplace, a telecommunications center, fires all their staff as they are outsourcing offshore, and she is evicted due to smoke damage resulting from her failed attempts at baking. Amelia thinks her luck has changed when she inherits her aunt’s store and beautiful Victorian house.
Yet has Amelia jumped out of the frying pan into the fire? The store is a cake store, and her aunt was a witch. To add to the mix, the house has secrets all of its own.
When a man is murdered in the cake store, will Amelia be able to cook up a way to solve the crime? Or will her spells prove as bad as her baking?
Series by Morgana Best.
The Kitchen Witch
1) Miss Spelled (Get it here in Audible.)
2) Dizzy Spells (Now also in Audio)
3) Sit for a Spell
4) Spelling Mistake
5) Ex-Spelled
6) The Halloween Spell
The Australian Witch
Set in 1930’s Australia.
These can be read in any order, and are about Amelia Spelled’s grandparents, Thelma and Wolff Spelled.
1) No Time to Witch (Short) (Currently available in anthology, Midnight Mysteries: 9 Cozy Tales)
2) Witch Christmas (Novella)
The Middle-aged Ghost Whisperer
1) Christmas Spirit (Get it here in Audible.)
2) Ghost Hunter
3) There Must be a Happy Medium
Witch Woods Funeral Home
1) A Ghost of a Chance (Get it here in Audible.)
2) Nothing to Ghost About
3) Make the Ghost of It
4) Ghost Stories
And Morgana’s non-Witch yet funny Cozy mysteries:
Cocoa Narel Chocolate Shop Mysteries
1) Sweet Revenge
2) The Sugar Hit
The Australian Amateur Sleuth
1) Live and Let Diet
2) Natural-Born Grillers
3) Dye Hard
4) The Prawn Identity
5) Any Given Sundae
Note: All Morgana’s books will soon be available as audio books on Audible, iTunes, and Amazon.
About Morgana Best .
#1 Best-selling Cozy Mystery author, Morgana Best, lives in a sunny beachside town in Australia. She is owned by one highly demanding, rescued cat, and two less demanding dogs, a chocolate Labrador and a rescued Dingo, as well as two rescued Dorper sheep, the ram, Herbert, and his wether friend, Bertie.
Morgana is a former college professor who now writes full time.
In her spare time, Morgana loves to read cozy mysteries and walk her dogs along the beach.