Category:
Cozy Mysteries
Regular value:
$3.99
Deal value:
Free
Deal begins:
September 26, 2022
Deal ends:
September 26, 2022
A RIP-ROARING, PULSE-POUNDING FLORIDA PUZZLER…
“A ripping good yarn … an exciting tale.” —Publishers Weekly
“… an imaginative plot, some rousing action, a black-hearted villain, a cute kid, some gently ironic humor, and a heroine who’s appealing without being perfect.” —Booklist
As intricate as a fisherman’s web, Riptide pretty writhes with sinister delights—household secrets and techniques, household feuds, misplaced household fortunes, betrayals, puzzles, sunken treasure… and homicide, in fact. With a little bit of illicit romance and treachery thrown in for seasoning. This rife environment swirls round New york artist Isabel Anders, who’s summoned dwelling to tiny St. Elmo, Florida to take care of an emergency: the aunt who raised her has been brutally—and mysteriously—injured.
Isabel arrives to seek out the household mansion in ruins, her aunt residing in a trailer, and, harmful as a cottonmouth, the lover she left at sixteen simply the place he was once. Waiting for her. Except now he’s obtained a grudge in opposition to her, a secret of his personal, and a few unsavory companions. Just when Isabel’s aunt appears to be getting higher (however earlier than she’s in a position to speak once more) she dies simply as mysteriously as she was injured. Suspecting homicide, Isabel rapidly ties her aunt’s loss of life to a different.
But to seek out the killer, she has to hack her means by means of a small-town jungle of intrigue and a number of other generations of interrelated secrets and techniques, producing hours of pulse-pounding delight for the confirmed puzzle fan.
WHO WILL LIKE IT: Fans of Laura Lippman, Kate Atkinson, clever cozies like these by G.M. Malliett, Elizabeth Zelvin, and Gillian Roberts, British puzzlemeisters like the good Dorothy L. Sayers herself, all BBC mysteries, and naturally, Michaela Thompson’s personal Hurricane Season.
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