Description
Bestselling author Carol J. Perry returns with the latest installment of her Witch City Mysteries!
Marriage isn’t the only thing new in Lee Barrett’s life when she’s tasked with a hauntingly dangerous assignment in her job as program director for Salem, Massachusetts’s local station, WICH-TV . . .
Just married, Lee and her husband, Detective Sergeant Pete Mondello, are settling into their new home when Lee is dubbed WICH-TV’s new “Historical Documentary Chief Executive.” Her first subject is the brand-new Salem International Museum, slated to be a location for traveling blockbuster exhibits, starting with “Seafaring New England.” From research to collecting artifacts of Salem’s long-ago days as a shipping capital, the project is a challenge—but when the driver of a truckload of antiquities turns up dead under a pile of fall leaves, it’s not quite the kind of challenge Lee expected . . .
Soon, Lee and Pete are dredging up clues along with a hardy crew of helpers, including Lee’s librarian aunt, Ibby, Lee’s best friend and practicing witch, River North—and of course the clairvoyant cat, O’Ryan. But when a ship model in the exhibit’s collection appears to be haunted, Lee will have to dive into her own treasure trove of psychic gifts before a killer comes to the surface to strike again . . .
My Thoughts
Carol Perry’s “Witch City” series is one of my favorites and she doesn’t disappoint in this new entry. The book opens with newlyweds Lee and Pete getting used to married life, and Lee experiencing some changes in her professional life. She’s tapped to make a documentary about a new international seafaring museum opening up in Salem, and immediately is dropped into a mystery surrounding the activity.
Of course, there’s a murder involved, paired with some high-stakes theft and intrigue which Lee handles with her usual sass and wit. Old favorites are back – the news station crew, Aunt Ibby and her investigator friends, and, of course, O’Ryan. Fans of the series will blow through this in a couple hours.
Publication Date: September 26, 2023
Published By: Kensington Books
Thanks to Netgalley for the review copy
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