Cloudy with a Chance of Ghosts (Destiny Bay Cozy Mysteries Book 4) Read Online Free PDF

lit up. “She told me she was here from the east coast and she was staying at the Bayside Hotel.”
    “Jill!” I laughed aloud. “Great. We ought to get over there right away and….” My voice trailed off as my enthusiasm waned. “And do what? We can’t call her room. No one will answer. How are we going to get in to take a look at her things?”
    Bebe was looking outraged. “You can’t do that in any case,” she said flatly. “You have no right to go looking at her things. And anyway, the police should be there by now. They’re not going to let you do it.”
    I stared at Bebe, suddenly realizing that her relationship with the Captain was going to be even more of a problem than I’d thought. Was she really getting that close to him—so that what he disapproved of me doing was going to be the same for her? Yikes. I was going to have to play my cards a little savvier it seemed.  
    At the same time, I was itching to get going. We knew where Keri had been staying—what a gold mine that could be! How was I going to manage this?  
    “Don’t worry,” I told my aunt breezily. “We’re not going to do anything illegal. Jill and I will just go over to the hotel and ask around about her. Perfectly on the up and up. Above board and all the other nice sayings I can’t think of right now. We’ll be on our best behavior.”
    I gave Jill a very bright smile. “Are you game?” I asked her.  
    She hesitated, but she didn’t let me down. “Sure,” she said. “But I can only give this about half an hour. Then I have to get back to my coffee shop. I’m never gone this long.”
    We packed up and took Bebe home.  
    “Don’t get involved in anything that’s going to get you into trouble,” she warned me.  
    I gave her a kiss on the cheek. “Don’t worry, Mom,” I teased her. “I’ll be good. Promise!”
    “You’d better be.”
    I knew where the Bayside was located though I’d never been in it before. A tall, imposing structure, it dominated the area of the beach that it guarded. Night had come and the inky dark water reflected back the bright lights of the hotel in a slightly menacing manner. Or was that just the mood of the day? It was hard to be cheerful with a possible murder on our minds.  
    “How old is this place?” I wondered as we parked and started toward the lobby.  
    “Gosh, almost a hundred years, I’d say,” Jill said. “I remember it from when I was a kid. Relatives from San Francisco used to stay here.”
    I looked at her. Excitement was shivering across my skin and I wasn’t sure why.  
    “Okay,” I said softly as we mounted the wide stairway. “What’s our game plan here?”
    She shrugged. “To talk to employees. Find out what they know. How long she’s been staying here. Things like that.”
    “What we really need is a look at her things. So how are we going to get into that room?”
    “How are we going to find out what room it actually is in the first place?” she scoffed at me. “That’s number one.”
    “Maybe we can take a peek into the records.”
    She shook her head. “They don’t write it down in a big old book like they used to you know,” she told me. “Everything’s on computer.”
    I looked around as we entered. The ceilings were high and the side drapes were velvet. It was beautifully appointed—very classy. But I was feeling a little strange. Something eerie in the wind, something flashing just out of sight—I was a little dizzy.  
    I looked at the registration counter and suddenly got cold feet. How were we supposed to do this anyway? Jill was right. Everything was locked away from our prying eyes. We could go up and ask for the information, but I was pretty sure they were very careful about giving out anything these days. What were we going to do?
    A picture flickered in my mind. I saw the scene in Star Wars where Obi Wan Kenobe seems to speak in young Skywalker’s mind. “Use the force, Luke.” And I heard Aunty Jane’s voice in my own