DEADSPEAK 2
by Ruth
Bainbridge
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GENRE: Mystery/thriller
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BLURB:
DEADSPEAK2. The chilling new entry in the
Deadspeak Mystery Series
Things look different when you're dead.
It’s Halloween and a group of teens throw a party at Harbinger Falls’ most celebrated haunted estate. It’s all fun and games until a session with a Ouija board guides the partygoers to the body of a young girl hidden in the attic.
Detective Kimberly Trent is assigned the case and quickly discovers that all is not as it seems. First, there’s the connection between the death and a string of petnappings terrorizing the neighborhood. Then there’s the suicide note that only leaves more questions than answers. A visit from Kimberly’s ghostly friend Griff Lindon sheds an unwelcome light. It seems she’s had a run in with the newly deceased who tells her she’s been murdered.
This is the second in The Deadspeak Mysteries. The entries are meant to be read in sequential order and do not standalone. In each book, you’ll find a new murder for Kimberly Trent to solve. You’ll also find the continuing search for who murdered Kim’s sister Elizabeth. Each book will take you closer and closer to finding out the identity of The Hex Killer, the serial killer who ended Elizabeth’s short life. It will also bring you to the heart of the evil that’s come back to life to wreak revenge.
Things look different when you're dead.
It’s Halloween and a group of teens throw a party at Harbinger Falls’ most celebrated haunted estate. It’s all fun and games until a session with a Ouija board guides the partygoers to the body of a young girl hidden in the attic.
Detective Kimberly Trent is assigned the case and quickly discovers that all is not as it seems. First, there’s the connection between the death and a string of petnappings terrorizing the neighborhood. Then there’s the suicide note that only leaves more questions than answers. A visit from Kimberly’s ghostly friend Griff Lindon sheds an unwelcome light. It seems she’s had a run in with the newly deceased who tells her she’s been murdered.
This is the second in The Deadspeak Mysteries. The entries are meant to be read in sequential order and do not standalone. In each book, you’ll find a new murder for Kimberly Trent to solve. You’ll also find the continuing search for who murdered Kim’s sister Elizabeth. Each book will take you closer and closer to finding out the identity of The Hex Killer, the serial killer who ended Elizabeth’s short life. It will also bring you to the heart of the evil that’s come back to life to wreak revenge.
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EXCERPT
“No,
you can’t come over to explain! I know what I saw!”
Mia
Chaukes, the pleasant girl with the quiet demeanor, was shouting. It was
unusual for the sixteen-year-old to raise her voice or be this upset, but she
wasn’t backing down. She couldn’t. Not after what she’d witnessed.
It
went against everything she believed in.
Her
eyes traveled the length of the pink walls. It had been her favorite color when
she was younger and always put her in a good mood, but would it still work
today?
She
sought comfort from the color—and from the shelves lined with the vestiges of
her past. Unicorns, teddy bears, and other stuffed toys were there with sunny
smiles and arms outstretched for a hug, but they only served as a reminder that
things had changed and would never be the same.
“Don’t
you dare tell me that!” she blasted as more desperation came through the
receiver … desperation and elaborate excuses.
Anything
but the truth.
She
wouldn’t be lied to … not anymore.
“Don’t
you dare tell me I’m imagining things! I’ll hang up … I mean it!”
What
would have happened if she hadn’t taken that way home? Or if she’d left earlier
or later? Endless possibilities, one worse than the other, shot through her
mind, each making her sick to her stomach. But before the nausea disappeared,
an equally disturbing question rose to the surface.
What
did happen?
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Born in the idyllic, sleepy town of Ithaca, NY, Ruth Bainbridge
has been a lover of mysteries for her entire life.
Ever since a child, she has consumed detective stories at regular
intervals, becoming enamored with all the superstars of crime. She loved
nothing more than to match wits with the likes of Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple,
Thomas Pitt, Lord Peter Wimsey, Richard Jury, and Edward X Delaney, becoming
inspired by their brilliance. Hoping to emulate her writing idol’s achievements
in dreaming up such characters, she started composing her own short stories.
However, life interfered with her plans of becoming the next
hopeful to try a life of crime—on paper at least. Devoting herself to her
marriage and the raising of four children, the empty nest syndrome gave her the
impetus to return to her first love—murder.
Amazon Author Page: bit.ly/bainbridgeauthorpage
Twitter: @Ruth_Mysteries
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