Contributor(s):Author: Alexia GordonThe captivating southwestern Irish countryside adds a delightful element to this paranormal series launch.
Gethsemane is an appealing protagonist who is doing the best she can against overwhelming odds.
- Library Journal (starred review on Murder in G Major) Gethsemane Brown, African-American classical musician and expatriate to an Irish village, solved a string of murders, led a school orchestra to victory in a major competition, and got used to living with a snarky ghost.
She can rest easy over the Christmas holiday.
Right? Wrong.
The ghost has disappeared, her landlord's about to sell her cottage to a hotel developer, and her brother-in-law is coming for a visit--with one day's notice.
She scrambles to call her spectral roomie back from beyond and find a way to save the cottage from certain destruction.
But real estate takes a backseat when her brother-in-law is accused of stealing a valuable antique.
Gethsemane strikes a deal with a garda investigator to go undercover as a musician at a charity ball and snoop for evidence linking antiques to a forgery/theft ring in exchange for the investigator's help clearing her brother-in-law.
At the party, she accidentally conjures the ghost of an eighteenth-century sea captain, then ends up the prime suspect in the party host's murder.
With the captain's help, she races to untangle a web of phony art and stolen antiques to exonerate herself and her brother-in-law.
Then the killer targets her.
Will she save herself and bring a thief and murderer to justice, or will her encore investigation become her swan song?Gethsemane Brown is everything an amateur sleuth should be: smart, sassy, talented, and witty even when her back is against the wall.
In her latest adventure, she's surrounded by a delightful cast, some of whom readers will remember from Gordon's award-winning debut and all of whom they won't forget.
Gordon writes characters we want resurrected.
- Cate Holahan, Author of 2017 Silve.
