Trick or Treat, Murder or Mayhem… Just Another Halloween in Harmony Hollow.

The dead bodies at Evan Wexler's haunted mansion were supposed to be fake.

Evan Wexler's wasn't.

I was dropping off cookies for the fundraiser when I overheard Evan and the charity director arguing. Evan gave the director a deadline of "until Sunday or else" and it sounded like blackmail.

Several hours later, he was dead.

Sheriff Jack Gilmore would prefer I stay out of it. But every question I ask turns up another person who wanted Evan gone.

The charity director had plenty to lose if Evan talked and his brother has been nursing a family grudge for years.

Then my Aunt Syl spotted someone skulking around in a ghostly bride costume before the haunt was even officially open, and someone left a warning tucked under her windshield wiper:

STOP TALKING ABOUT WHAT YOU SAW OR ELSE.

Naturally, Aunt Syl keeps talking.

When my German Shepherd, Sadie, starts nosing at a hidden passageway like it owes her money, I have to wonder what else Wexler House is hiding.

And when someone traps Aunt Syl inside that passage beneath a pile of collapsed shelves, it's clear the killer isn't bluffing.

If I don't unmask Evan's killer soon, Aunt Syl could be the next real corpse at Wexler House.

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