Death in d minor - alexia gordon

The captivating southwestern Irish countryside adds a delightful element to this paranormal series launch.

Gethsemane is an appealing protagonist who is doing the best she can against overwhelming odds.

- Library Journal (starred review on Murder in G Major)Gethsemane Brown, African-American classical musician and expatriate to an Irish village, solved a string of murders, led a school orchestra to victory in a major competition, and got used to living with a snarky ghost.

She can rest easy over the Christmas holiday.

Right? Wrong.

The ghost has disappeared, her landlords about to sell her cottage to a hotel developer, and her brother-in-law is coming for a visit--with one days notice.

She scrambles to call her spectral roomie back from beyond and find a way to save the cottage from certain destruction.

But real estate takes a backseat when her brother-in-law is accused of stealing a valuable antique.

Gethsemane strikes a deal with a garda investigator to go undercover as a musician at a charity ball and snoop for evidence linking antiques to a forgery/theft ring in exchange for the investigators help clearing her brother-in-law.

At the party, she accidentally conjures the ghost of an eighteenth-century sea captain, then ends up the prime suspect in the party hosts murder.

With the captains help, she races to untangle a web of phony art and stolen antiques to exonerate herself and her brother-in-law.

Then the killer targets her.

Will she save herself and bring a thief and murderer to justice, or will her encore investigation become her swan song?Gethsemane Brown is everything an amateur sleuth should be: smart, sassy, talented, and witty even when her back is against the wall.

In her latest adventure, shes surrounded by a delightful cast, some of whom readers will remember from Gordons award-winning debut and all of whom they wont forget.

Gordon writes characters we want resurrected.

- Cate Holahan, Author of 2017 Silver Falchion Award-Nominated The Widowers WifeErstwhile ghost conjurer and gifted concert violinist Gethsemane Brown returns in this thoroughly enjoyable follow-up to last years Murder in G Major.

Facing eviction from the historic seaside cottage she calls home, Gethsemane must clear her brother-in-laws name--as well as her own--when a priceless artifact goes missing and the wealthy dowager to whom it belonged is helped over a high balcony railing.

With the help of a spectral sea captain she accidentally summoned, Gethsema.