Genre: Mystery
Digital Book
ASIN #: B08YWZQXMW
Busstop Press
175 Pages
$2.99 Amazon
April 6, 2021
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Mira Michaels can hear her cat talk. And after moving to her new home, she thinks she might see ghosts as well. this was the last thing she needed. If there was anything she wanted more, it was to get away from her sister's psychic shenanigans. But when Mira finds her realtor dead, she must use all her wits not to call her sister for help.
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Mira Michaels is moving to a small town in Pennsylvania. She's escaping memories of an ex-boyfriend who ran off with her money, and a psychic sister who micromanages her life. She's made a big decision in her life: she's bought an old Victoria home and plans to renovate it then flip it. There's also one other thing about Mira: she can talk to her cat. Not as in a normal conversation, but hear Arnold in her head when he wants to tell her something. So there's that...
But when Mira arrives, she finds the body of her realtor in her new kitchen. Dead. As in very dead. When she calls the police, they inform her that she can't stay in the home, so, since she's made a new friend in the owner of the local diner (who luckily lives practically next door) she winds up staying at the home of Aerie, a yoga instructor/diner operator and her brother Jay, who owns a construction company.
Then after Mira is given the alright to go back, there's an explosion, and she barely gets out of the house alive. But not without help. At least not without help that she's willing to talk about to anyone. Not unless she wants them to think she's crazy...
When other unusual occurrences happen, Mira and Aerie decide to find out what's going on before there's another dead body. If only Mira can stay alive long enough to find the killer...
This is the first book in a new series, and it's fun to read. There is plenty of action going on, from the moment Mira steps inside her new home, until the end of the book when the murderer is apprehended (as we know they will be). In between, Mira is making friends and finding out about the townspeople and a bit of their lives, which I imagine will be explored more in future books.
I think Aerie is a very interesting character; she runs a small-town diner and is always trying to feed her customers gluten-free or vegan food (which they, of course, aren't interested in eating). It's a different twist on things, and I like the way it works in this book.
We get to meet Mira Michaels, who, along with her cat, Arnold, are on the trail of a killer while he's trying to tell her what to do (don't all cats? At least mine do). Mira doesn't pay much attention to him until there's a telling conversation when she begins to think things through. At that point, it brings her closer to the killer. Mira is determined not to call her psychic sister Darla, since Darla has interfered in her life and she wants to make it on her own. Unfortunately, that means surviving, if she can.
In the end, it all comes together nicely, with the murderer being an unusually surprising one, and I enjoyed reading this book and look forward to the next in the series.
More on Julia Koty's Books: https://www.amazon.com/Julia-Koty/e/B08XZX9WMS/ref
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