Murder at the Spirit Lounge
A Novel
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Publisher Description
In the second installment of the Nora Breen Investigates series—“perfect for cozy mystery lovers” (Book Riot)—beloved former nun Nora Breen returns, this time to track down a ghostly killer before it’s too late.
When Dolores Chimes, a famous medium, arrives in Gore-on-Sea, even surly Detective Inspector Rideout is lured in by her promises of messages for the afterlife.
But after a reading goes disastrously wrong, Dolores loses her life—and the six sitters at the séance with her fall victim to supernatural deaths themselves in the days following the nightmare of a reading.
Determined to unveil the truth, Nora finds herself chasing a ghostly serial killer she believes to be responsible, before the sixth victim—Detective Rideout himself—perishes along with the others.
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Former nun Nora Breen investigates the death of a psychic in Kidd's clever sequel to Murder at Gulls Nest. In postwar England, Nora has abandoned her vocation at a Carmelite monastery and moved to Kent, where she's befriended DI Hilary Rideout. Rideout asks her to join him on a visit to Dolores Chimes, a psychic who's asked him to look into a jewelry theft. Based on what Nora gleans from Dolores's housemaid, Gladys, the theft was only a pretext for Dolores to invite Rideout—whom Dolores claims to have learned all about from the spirits of the dead—to her next séance. He agrees to attend, but the gathering ends tragically with Dolores's death, possibly from fright. Despite the bizarre lack of physical evidence, Nora suspects Dolores may have been killed, a theory that gathers momentum when other séance guests turn up dead. Fearing that Rideout might be next on the killer's list, Nora draws on the sleuthing skills she developed in the previous book to launch an inquiry. Kidd has fun dreaming up apparently impossible deaths for her victims, and the resolution satisfies. For cozy fans, this is a treat.
