SECOND TO NUN
Second to Nun
by Alice Loweecey
Second To Nun
(A Giulia Driscoll Mystery Book 2)
Cozy Mystery
Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: Henery Press (September 22, 2015)
ISBN-13: 978-1941962930
E-Book ASIN: B010BUDQVI
(A Giulia Driscoll Mystery Book 2)
Cozy Mystery
Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: Henery Press (September 22, 2015)
ISBN-13: 978-1941962930
E-Book ASIN: B010BUDQVI
The Other Side has hired Driscoll Investigations. The owner of Stone’s Throw Lighthouse Bed and Breakfast insists that a tarot reading told her to hire Giulia to evict the family ghost. Since the ghost is cutting gas lines and flooding cellars, Giulia and her husband Frank head to the B&B to discover the real perpetrator.
The client also has a family legend: A highwayman who stole a pile of gold. Giulia has a pile of suspects, including a psychic the client hired to conduct weekly séances. So much for romance with Frank at this getaway.
Instead, Giulia’s juggling arson, creepy clown dolls, and the psychic going all Exorcist on her. Then the ghost tries to push the client off the lighthouse and throw Giulia down three flights of stairs. It should’ve known better than to mess with an ex-nun. Giulia has connections and she’s about to use them.
Related subjects include: cozy mysteries, women sleuths, murder mystery series, whodunit mysteries (whodunnit), humorous murder mysteries, book club recommendations, private investigator mystery series.
Books in the Giulia Driscoll Humorous Mystery Series:
- CHANGING HABITS (prequel short story)
- NUN TOO SOON (#1)
- SECOND TO NUN (#2)
- NUN BUT THE BRAVE (#3) July 2016
While many of her cases are distasteful, usually her life is not in danger.
The day MacAllister Stone stormed into Giulia's office and forcibly dragged her across the street to the local fortune teller's storefront, life was not only about to get dangerous but also weird.
Mac, as everyone calls the vibrant, 70 year old woman, owns a lighthouse themed bed and breakfast. She claims it is haunted by a family ghost that is trying to evict her and her guests. The psychic, Lady Rowan, had told Mac to consult "she who uncovers the truth," who fortunately had a office across the street. There are other psychic connection throughout the book to "The Veiled Woman" and La Llorona, (a vision calling one to one's death) or the White Woman.
I will admit I am listening to Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor as I write this review. It makes great background music for any of the lighthouse tower scenes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9rZ...
When she learns more about this case, Giulia muses that she "was thinking that removing a ghost requires a different type of investigator." however, when she sees what she will be paid, she dismisses her thoughts about it being a "one-in-one-thousand chance the troubles are supernatural" and makes arrangements for her police detective husband to accompany her on a mini investigating vacation at Stone's Throw.
This book is a mixture of kitsch and cozy and well thought out clues to follow, along with slight references to Scooby Doo. The suspects are interesting enough, all with possible motives.
There is creative, colorful dialogue, such as "the guests...resembled an explosion in a crayon factory," and "By this time the ghost ought to be able to give a TED talk on multitasking."
Giulia observed that the psychic suspects were not "following the huckster's rulebook," meaning following common patterns of swindlers. I also appreciated that Giulia used ANY resources at her disposal including internet searches for how to life fingerprints and praying to whichever patron saint covered retrieving clear prints.
A fun, well paced cozy that is not like all the others.
I did receive this book in exchange for an unbiased review.
Baker of brownies and tormenter of characters, Alice Loweecey recently celebrated her thirtieth year outside the convent. She grew up watching Hammer Horror and Scooby-Doo Mysteries, which might explain a whole lot. When she’s not creating trouble for Giulia Falcone-Driscoll, she can be found growing her own vegetables (in summer) and cooking with them (the rest of the year).
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