A Few Dying Words
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
The second compelling whodunit in the Blackwater Bay series from Paula Gosling, author of Monkey Puzzle and winner of the CWA Golden Dagger.
Every year, the normally peaceful, ordinary citizens of Blackwater Bay celebrate Halloween with a carnival of madness, laughter – and practical jokes. They call it the Howl – and each town in the county competes for the wildest 'Howler' of all. For one person, however, the Howl means one thing: murder.
Thirty years ago, a killer struck. Now, under the cover of the carnival, the killer has returned. Or, at least, that's what Sheriff Matt Gabriel thinks. Everyone else thinks he's crazy. Suspicion and resentment surround him, as he searches urgently for the one who killed once, twice – and may kill again . . .
'This is a writer who always entertains' – Sunday Telegraph
A Few Dying Words is the second book in the Blackwater Bay series. The series continues with The Dead of Winter.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Deft plotting and an appealing cast mark the second in Gosling's series, begun with the The Body in Blackwater Bay , set in a small Great Lakes resort town. While bracing for the Blackwater Bay's annual Howl--a traditional Halloween celebration of carnival rides and pranks--Sheriff Matt Gabriel agrees to meet with clearly agitated retired pharmacist, Tom Finnegan. While driving to the sheriff's office, however, Finnegan is run off the road. Matt reaches the older man's side before he dies and hears him whisper ``not an accident'' along with the name ``Jacky Morgan.'' Aided by his secretary, Tilly Moss, lawyer Dominic Pritchard and reporter Emily Gibbons, Matt learns that Jacky Morgan died during a Howl 30 years earlier when he went over a cliff in a barrel, an event that, ruled an accident, involved a group of the town's most important citizens. Then the subsequent murder of another man involved in Morgan's death impels Matt and his friends to determine which of the remaining participants in the earlier incident might be trying to silence the group.
