Author: Thea Cambert
Genre: Mystery
Paperback; Digital Book
ISBN #: 9798689726847
Independently Published
201 Pages
$7.99; $3.99 Amazon
September 20, 2020
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The centerpiece of the festival this year is Haunted Blue Valley, a tour for visitors and locals alike to view the historic Main Street buildings by candlelight, learn about the town's past, and of course, look for ghosts, all in good fun. But when Alice, Owen, and Franny's building appears to actually be haunted, it's up to the three friends to figure out what's going on.
Events take a spooky turn when the history buff who's supposed to give the tour of the building finds an actual skeleton in the closet. Is it some sort of morbid warning?
Franny and Ben's wedding preparations are continually getting derailed, as the time until their special day slips away faster and faster. Before festival weekend is over, the three friends will have to throw a wedding, host a festival, and catch a killer.
Will they be able to accomplish the seemingly impossible and find wedded bliss?
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This time out, Alice and her friends Franny and Owen are trying to put together the fall festival, including random ghosts that supposedly haunt Blue Valley. Franny is also marrying her love, Alice's brother Ben, so their time is limited. When they look through old papers of their historic building, they discover that there's a basement below them, long sealed up. But their curiosity overcomes everything else, and they venture down only to find what appears to be Civil War artifacts.
They mention this to the unofficial town historian, and he can't wait to view everything. But no one notices that he never returns to the festival. When Owen spots what appears to be another wall, they, along with police officer Ben Maguire and Detective Luke, who's Alice's beau, venture down and find a very dead body.
Now there are too many suspects in town and anyone could be a killer...
This is the fifth book in the series and I have to say that I enjoyed it as much as the rest. Confessing to everyone that I suffer from depression (brought on by a surgery that went wrong in every way possible), at times it is difficult to do anything. But then I grab one of Ms. Cambert's books and read it right through.
The writing is light, the stories interesting, the characters endearing, and I would like to visit Blue Valley for myself and experience first hand. These books are light-hearted mysteries, and the intelligent Alice always finds the answers. I love the descriptions of everything, and the fact that there is neither an 'evil nemesis' (which I detest) nor a love triangle (ditto). The writing flows smoothly, and the story is easy to read.
When we come to the end and the killer is revealed, the motive is very sad indeed, but it is, as we already know, as old as time itself. The ending was very satisfying, and I look forward to the next in the series.
More on Thea Cambert's Books: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/thea-cambert/
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