Nine Lives
A Lily Dale Mystery
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4.4 • 26 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
New York Times–bestselling author
A widowed young mom finds a fresh start in a quirky lakeside village populated by mediums in this “thoroughly satisfying” mystery for fans of Charmed (Rhys Bowen)
When reluctant road trippers Bella Jordan and her son Max detour to Lily Dale, New York, they’re planning to deliver a lost cat to its home and then move on, searching for one of their own. But the footloose feline’s owner Leona Gatto has unexpectedly passed away, leaving behind a pregnant pet without a mistress, a busy inn without a keeper—and a lovable circle of neighbors who chat with dead people.
After agreeing to help out temporarily, sensible Bella doesn’t need psychic gifts to figure out that a houseful of tourists and a litter of kittens lie in her immediate future—or that Leona was murdered. It’s up to her to solve the case so that she and Max can leave town, but their new home—like Leona's killer—might just lurk where she least expects it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This sweet, romantically melancholic first in a new paranormal series from bestseller Staub (Nightwatcher) introduces newly widowed Isabella Jordan, who embarks on a road trip with her young son, Max, from Bedford, N.Y., to visit her hated mother-in-law in Chicago. Car trouble strands Bella and Max in the spiritualist enclave of Lily Dale, N.Y., where they wind up attending to the needs of a very pregnant cat. In addition, the Victorian guesthouse where they're staying suddenly needs tourist-season help due to the drowning of the caretaker, Leona Gatto. The locals' attitude that contact with the dead is possible makes Bella wonder whether her beloved late husband could be watching over them, but she's terrified by dreams that suggest Leona's death was no accident. Staub doesn't overplay the quirkiness of the guesthouse residents for color, nor does she rely on ghosts and psychics to solve the murder, opting instead to pull the heartstrings of readers soft on animals, young kids, and the idea of love beyond the grave.
