Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Lament at Loon Landing
The annual music festival brings the past into the present with a slew of “friends” coming together in a mix of resentment and hope that leads to murder in Pirate’s Cove.
The annual music festival brings the past into the present with a slew of “friends” coming together in a mix of resentment and hope that leads to murder in Pirate’s Cove.
Bookshop owner Ellery Page and Police Chief Jack Carson are diving for the legendary sunken pirate galleon Blood Red Rose when they discover an old fashioned diver’s suit, water-damaged and encrusted with barnacles — with a 21st century body.
It’s one break-in after another from the ghostly intruder at Black House to the sneak thief at the Salty Dog with Ellery Page reluctantly pulled in to both crimes.
It’s a reunion of old friends getting trapped in Ellery Page’s creaky mansion that sets off a deadly set of memories that leads to an even more deadly game of Clue.
Wounded, Elliot Mills is now a history professor, his FBI life behind him. He thought. A favor to a family friend puts him back on the line and face-to-face with a former lover.
A not-quite-fake medium upsets newspaper man David Flynn on several levels even as news of a serial killer rampages through the county.
It’s a masquerade party with a ghost hunt at the end that ends in murder, and Ellery Page is knee deep with competing love interests.
An anthology of eight short stories that terrify with the snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard.
The approaching steps that might be of a lover or an enemy.
Ellery Page is ready for a change, and when he learns he’s inherited a bookstore and a mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate’s Cove, it’s full steam ahead. Until he discovers the truth of his inheritance and an enemy is found dead in the bookstore.
Zane should know better than to shake Ty up because Ty will bake it to a close when Zane makes Ty jealous.