โ Scribed by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
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While an end-of-the-world revivalist group shakes up Leetsville, Emily Kincaid is deep in the northern Michigan woods researching her latest story for the local paper. But her walk gets cut short when she comes upon an eerily motionless woman propped against a tree . . .
Emily soon learns that the victim, an eccentric psychic and leader of a shamanic healing group, harbored painful memories of the area-and had mysterious ties to certain revivalist members. What could have lured her back to the place she feared so greatly? Why did someone want her dead? As the last day draws near, Emily races to solve this mystical puzzle and expose the killer. An old ghost town, a forgotten grave, and closely guarded family secrets may hold all the answers.
Praise for theEmily Kincaid Mystery series
"Buzzelli's well-crafted third Emily Kincaid cozy . . . [features] sharp prose and spirited characterizations."Publishers Weekly
"Readers will find the same strong sense of place and great characters that are hallmarks of Sarah Graves and Philip Craig."Library Journal
At the start of Buzzelli's well-crafted third Emily Kincaid cozy (after 2009's Dead Floating Lovers), the intrepid reporter discovers a dead woman under a pine tree near an abandoned logging town 15 days before the world's supposed to end on October 27, at least according to the End Timer cult that's causing a stir in Leetsville, Mich. Strangled by a rope similar to those worn by cult members, Marjory Otis was a shaman who'd come to Leetsville to tend to the crowd if the world didn't end. After Emily's policewoman friend, Deputy Dolly Wakowski, joins the End Timers, Emily once again turns amateur sleuth, encouraged by her newspaper editor, Bill Corcoran, among others, to help catch a killer and solve a cold case involving Marjory's past. Buzzelli's mix of mystery and humor doesn't include supernatural shenanigans like Charlaine Harris's Southern vampire series, but it does provide some sharp prose and spirited characterizations. (May)
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Wannabe mystery writer Emily Kinkaid (she is thrilled to have an agent who may be able to sell her first book) is visiting a ghost town for a freelance newspaper article when she comes across a woman who appears to be sleeping but is, in fact, dead. Emily is drawn into the murder investigation because the local police department in small-town Leetsville, in lower Michigan, is overwhelmed, thanks to the presence of Reverend Fritch and his followers, who believe the world will end cataclysmically in 15 days. When Emilys friend Deputy Dolly Wakowski joins the cult, Emily has something else to investigate. The appeal of this third in the series comes both from Emilya likable character forging a new life after her divorceand the evocatively described, nicely detailed small-town setting. --Sue OBrien
Library : General
Universes : An Emily Kincaid Mystery [03]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780738725833
Mystery
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