Writing All Wrongs
(A Books by the Bay Mystery)
7th in Series
Cozy Mystery
Setting – North Carolina
A Berkley Prime Crime Mystery (November 3, 2015)
An Imprint of Penguin Ransom House LLC
Cover Illustration by Kimberly Schamber
Cover Design by Rita Frangie
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0425270844
E-Book ASIN: B00SI026LU
The New York Times bestselling author of Lethal Letters returns to the North Carolina Coast, where aspiring novelist and amateur sleuth Olivia Limoges discovers crime doesn’t take a vacation . .
After Olivia and Chief Rawlings enjoy a brief honeymoon on Palmetto Island, they’re joined by the rest of the Bayside Book Writers for the Coastal Carolina Crime Festival. The festival’s highlight is Silas Black, celebrity screenwriter and television producer, who is currently working on a popular television show in North Carolina.
As the festival gets under way, a trickster seems to be bringing famous local ghost stories to life. But when the body of a woman close to Black is found on the beach, Olivia and her friends must deduce who on the island could resort to murder—before the sands of time run out for someone else…
Dollycas’s Thoughts
Olivia and Chief Rawlings are finding the way in the marriage department. They were both used to their alone time and solitary space. Hard to learn how to live with a person day in and day out when you are pretty set in your ways, but I have faith they will work everything out. Taking a honeymoon on Palmetto Island seems like a good start. They are joined after a couple of days by their friends, the Bayside Book Writers, as the Coastal Carolina Crime Festival starts. Celebrity, Silas Black, is the main draw to the festival but when local ghost stories start to come to life and a woman is found dead on the beach the fun the group was having comes to an end. When the main suspect is someone they know it’s all hands on deck to find the real killer.
Ellery Adams takes her characters on a bit of vacation and where they go trouble seems to follow. Palmetto Island sounds like a beautiful place. I can understand the residents wanting to keep part of the island in its original state and the anger as another developer comes in to put up another hotel. The character of Jan is not afraid to protest or rile people up to protect the habitat. We also meet a man who lived his whole life, 90 years, on Palmetto Island. He is quite a storyteller too. Adams draws such dynamic characters, new and old and even dogs. They are all so engaging.
The mystery itself has many moving parts. The ghost stories being reenacted, the sale of a large piece of land, the festival, a book release, and more. They are all blended together with a very fine hand. The words and the images they formed were so captivating. It was quite an adventure.
Adams is an extraordinary storyteller. In this series she writes the main story but also because the cast are writers themselves she has to write pieces of their stories too. In this installment one of them actually has had a book published and while it probably isn’t my cup of tea I almost expect it to pop up on my Amazon feed. She adds even more stories this time as we hear the Palmetto Island ghost stories.
I have loved this series from the start and I want more, more, more!!
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Writing All Wrongs sounds like a great book, and the cover is awesome. Thank you for the giveaway.
I love Ellery’s books and own quite a few of them. I’d be thrilled to add this one to my personal library.
Love, love , love this series!
For some reason when I read the first book of this series, it didn’t click – maybe the timing of when I read it…this series has had so many wonderful, eager followers that I would love to give it another chance! Hearing about the couple adjusting to married life sounds appealing already, as my husband and I were in our early 40’s when we married and it was an adjustment! Hearing the recreation of ghost stories sounds fun, also!
What a fun giveaway for a fun looking book. Thank you for the chance to win
I enjoy Ellery Adams’ books and would love to own this one. Thanks for the chance by holding this giveaway. robeader53@yahoo.com
I love this series. I can’t wait to read this one. Thanks for the giveaway!
It sounds very good, and I love the cover!
One of my favorite series.
Fantastic giveaway and I love it…thanks…
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Her books are great love reading them.
As Ellery knows I’m a huge fan of her books and own many of them. I’d be thrilled to add this one to my personal home library to share with my family.
I can’t enter being in the UK, but whoever wins will be VERY lucky 😀
I am really looking forward to reading this latest addition to her “Books By the Bay Mystery” series!