On the Trail of Something Scary

Deb Powers struggles to focus on her new job. Helping her unusual friend set up a website out of the ordinary.
Her sheriff cousin hears of eerie incidents in town that spell trouble for all of Estonoa.
Now Deb takes a chance on digging out the weird before word gets out.
Can she crack the case before it's too late for everyone?

Also available in the collection Investigations Beyond Belief

An excerpt from An Eddy of the Unexplained:

When a Good Place Turns Bad

"Strange how?" Deb said, refusing to throw out suggestions for Terri to shoot down. Partly because she enjoyed the surprise too much.

"This one really is hard to put into words, even for me," Terri said, frowning and looking serious for a change. "People say they feel...threatened lately. Even people who've been hiking that trail since it opened four years ago. They swear their skin crawls, like they're being watched. Not just people, either. Their dogs get freaked out and don't even want to walk through there. It's strong enough that several people have called us in."

"Did you take police dogs out there?" Annie said. "To see how they react?"

"We did, or we tried to. These aren't fresh-out-of-training dogs or officers, but the dogs refused to get within twenty feet of the eddy. They didn't bark or alert. They simply stopped walking."