Title: RELATIVELY DEAD
Series: Relatively Dead #1
Author: Sheila Connolly
Publisher: Beyond the Page Publishing
Publish Date: 05.16.13
Category /Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Cozy Mystery
Recommended
for: 16+
Grammar/editing: A – near perfect
Received from: Beyond the Page Publishing via netgalley.com
Date completed: 07.02.15
Goodreads link: Relatively
Dead
Description from the publisher:
From New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly
Abby Kimball has just moved to New
England with her boyfriend and is trying to settle in, but the experience is
proving to be quite unsettling, to
say the least. While on a tour of local historic homes, Abby witnesses a family
scene that leaves her gasping for breath—because the family has been dead for
nearly a century. Another haunting episode follows, and another, until it seems
to Abby that everything she touches is drawing her in, calling to her from the
past.
Abby would doubt her sanity if it
weren’t for Ned Newhall, the kind and knowledgeable guide on that disturbing
house tour. Rather than telling her she’s hallucinating, Ned takes an
interest in Abby’s strange encounters and encourages her to figure out what’s
going on, starting with investigating the story of the family she saw . . . and
exploring her own past.
But as Abby begins to piece together
a history that’s as moving as it is shocking and unravels a long-ago mystery
that nearly tore her family apart, she also begins to suspect that Ned’s got
secrets of his own, and that his interest may be driven as much by a taste for
romance as a love for history.
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RELATIVELY DEAD is the first book in
the Relatively Dead series. They each will
stand on their own.
I loved this easy-on-the-nerves,
paranormal, cozy mystery. There was no death,
and nothing was stolen. Instead, the
focus was on Abby and her sudden ability to see ghosts. This was a wonderful set up story to prepare
you for the series, establishing the who, where, and what they are.
Loved Abby and Ned; hated Brad, but
I guess we’re supposed to hate him.
There was cheering when he got kicked to the curb!
I’ve never been to Massachusetts,
but after reading this story, I feel as though I took a small vacation
there. Isn’t that the best kind of book
– the ones that take you on a vacation of the mind.
Note: while I was given this book as a gifted ARC
via NetGalley, my opinions are my own and are given freely.
Relatively
Dead Mysteries:
1.
Relatively Dead
2.
Seeing the Dead
3.
Defending the Dead
4.
Watch for the Dead
5.
Search for the Dead
6.
Revealing the Dead
Also from Sheila Connolly:
·
A
Necessary Death
·
Once
She Knew
·
An Open Book
·
Reunion with Death
·
The Rising of the Moon
·
Under the Hill
County
Cork Mysteries:
1.
Buried in a Bog
2.
Scandal in Skibbereen
3.
An Early Wake
4.
A Turn for the Bad
5.
Cruel Winter
6.
Many a Twist
6.5 Tied Up with a Bow
7.
The Lost Traveller
Museum
Mysteries:
1.
Fundraising the Dead
2.
Let’s Play Dead
2.5
Dead Letters
3.
Fire Engine Dead
4.
Monument to the Dead
5.
Razing the Dead
6.
Privy to the Dead
7.
Dead End Street
Orchard
Mysteries:
0.5
Called Home
1.
One Bad Apple
2.
Rotten to the Core
3.
Red Delicious Death
4.
A Killer Crop
5.
Bitter Harvest
6.
Sour Apples
7.
Golden Malicious
8.
Picked to Die
9.
A Gala Event
10.
Seeds of Deception
11.
A Late Frost
12.
Nipped in the Bud
Victorian
Village Mysteries:
1.
Murder at the Mansion
2. Killer in the Carriage House (coming
07.09.2019)
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