This book is helping me out of a reading slump
The Deadly Whisper by Marie Dalgety
Gather around. It's (true) story time.
When I was a kid, sometimes my parents would take me and my brother to the office where several of their friends worked. Other parents also brought their kids along. The children would play together while the adults had their after work drinks.
One day, us kids were playing in the building’s elevator, mucking around, pressing random buttons, when suddenly, the BACK of the elevatory opened. It was a double-sided elevator! That was crazy enough, but even crazier was where that door led to…
It opened into an ABANDONED LIBRARY.
I kid you not. It was like we had just discovered Narnia.
Okay, so there weren’t any books left. It was just a big, dusty old room, with scattered empty shelving units and dockets from checked out books from long ago, but to a child, it was pure magic.
The adults confirmed that, yes, the local public library used to be based in the building, but it moved out several years ago. They didn’t seem to be aware it could be accessed through the back of the elevator, though. That was our own little discovery.
This childhood memory sticks in my brain. Maybe I’ll incorporate into a book one day…
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On another note, I want to share my friend’s debut novel she just released.
The Deadly Whisper by Marie Dalgety is an adventure and humour-packed cosy mystery, set in a unique location and time period, and I am loving it so far! So well-written, quirky, and funny. It is seriously helping me out of a reading slump. Check it out below and grab the free prequel while you’re at it!
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-Sara
New release - The Deadly Whisper by Marie Dalgety
Introducing an exciting new voice for mystery readers—The Deadly Whisper by Marie Dalgety is the first in a delightful and engrossing new series full of twists, colourful characters, and a setting unlike any other.
1880, Chattering Islands, South Pacific Ocean. Where the body count is high, the locals all have secrets, and the islands themselves hold mysteries of their own.
Tour guide and history expert May Goomes has done everything she can to try to fit into life on the Chattering Islands since moving there from the neighbouring Isle Bleak. There’s only one problem—Chattering Islanders hate Bleakers.
But when a man turns up dead in a scene matching that of a well-known local legend, May sees an opportunity to finally gain the town’s acceptance by solving his murder.
May’s investigation soon leads her to butting heads with the handsome local chief, throwing herself into the race to find a fabled buried treasure, and unearthing secrets about her missing father.
Can May catch the killer? Or does she risk becoming a legend of local history herself—for all the wrong… and very dead… reasons?
FREE Prequel Novella - The Case of the Poisoned Sun
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