Lost Friends

Ghost Detective Short Stories #2

by R.W. Wallace

At the farthest corner of the cemetery, a very special mausoleum stands vigil. Tall, solid, and spacious, it houses the remains of our town’s Jane and John Does. The bodies nobody claimed.

Two police officers arrive with a new urn, to be placed in a slot without a name. Clothilde and Robert, the cemetery’s only resident ghosts, attend the funeral from their side of the veil.

Most people need time to come to grips with being a ghost. Most people scream for days.

When a young girl pops out of the urn without so much as a squeak, Clothilde and Robert know they have a challenging new case on their hands.

Genres: Mystery

31 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 26, 2021

About the author

R.W. Wallace writes in most genres, though she tends to end up in mystery more often than not. Dead bodies keep popping up all over the place whenever she sits down in front of her keyboard.

The stories mostly take place in Norway or France; the country she was born in and the one that has been her home for two decades. Don’t ask her why she writes in English – she won’t have a sensible answer for you.

Her Ghost Detective short story series appears in Pulphouse Magazine, starting in issue #9.

Reviews

[Quanita · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a super short (less than 30 pages) read. Clothilde and Robert are on their own helping a little girl. Lena, the girl, is a victim of child abduction. When the abductor tires of each child he murders them. I recommend reading the first book in the series to understand these two helpful spirits.

[LJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed this book very much!

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sad, but not too graphic. Trigger alert for child abuse.