Title: PHANTOM OF THE OPAL
Series: Coastal Playhouse Mystery #0
Author: Jessa Archer
Publisher: Archer Mysteries
Publish Date: 06.08.2019
Category /Genre: Cozy Mystery
Recommended for: 14+ due to murder
Grammar/editing: B – a few small
errors
Received from: Amazon purchase
Goodreads link: Phantom of the Opal
Date completed: 10.10.2019
Description from the publisher:
MEET THE CHARACTERS OF THE
COASTAL PLAYHOUSE SERIES IN THIS MINI-MYSTERY!
When Tig Alden, former teen detective on TV’s Private Eye High, returns to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for her mom’s funeral, she’s shocked to discover that her mother, Professor Caroline Riggs-Alden, was apparently the victim of not just the accidental fall that took her life, but also of theft. The distinctive black opal ring that Caroline had always worn—the ring that she had promised to leave to Tig’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Paige—isn’t on her finger when they open the coffin.
But who could have taken Caroline’s ring? Was it the funeral director? Or perhaps the college student who found Caroline’s body at the foot of the stairs in the science building?
Tig is determined to find the opal and to sort out the odd behavior of her mother’s cat, the aptly-named Attila. Her detective skills are a little rusty, however, and this time, there are no writers to tell her whodunit. She’ll have to rely on her wits—and maybe a bit of help from the cat.
When Tig Alden, former teen detective on TV’s Private Eye High, returns to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for her mom’s funeral, she’s shocked to discover that her mother, Professor Caroline Riggs-Alden, was apparently the victim of not just the accidental fall that took her life, but also of theft. The distinctive black opal ring that Caroline had always worn—the ring that she had promised to leave to Tig’s fifteen-year-old daughter, Paige—isn’t on her finger when they open the coffin.
But who could have taken Caroline’s ring? Was it the funeral director? Or perhaps the college student who found Caroline’s body at the foot of the stairs in the science building?
Tig is determined to find the opal and to sort out the odd behavior of her mother’s cat, the aptly-named Attila. Her detective skills are a little rusty, however, and this time, there are no writers to tell her whodunit. She’ll have to rely on her wits—and maybe a bit of help from the cat.
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PHANTOM OF THE OPAL is the first
book in the Coastal Playhouse Mystery series. Each will stand on its own, but I would
strongly suggest reading them in the order of release.
This is a quick and fun little
introduction to the characters and the set of the Coastal Playhouse Mystery
series. Thank God, I had already read
two other stories in the series or it would have been a name overload for me…
too many names for the short tease of a story.
Unfortunately, it also fell flat as a mystery. There were no clues, though there was some
questioning of “suspects.”
It was okay. Oh well, it’s neither here nor there. I have read others in the series and I am
invested. Moving on… to Off-Broadway.
Coastal
Playhouse Mysteries:
The Phantom of the Opal
1.
Curtains for Romeo
3.
Offed Off-Broadway
Also from Jessa Archer:
Canterbury
Golf Club Mysteries:
The Mystery of the Missing Crystal
Golf Ball
1.
A Murder at the Country Club
2.
A Murder at the Devil’s Ball
3.
A Death in the Hazard
4.
A Major Murder
Hand Lettering Mystery series:
4.
Process of Illumination
Hidden
Harbor Tea Shop Series:
1.
Tea is for Trouble
2.
Death before Decaf
Legal Beagle
Mysteries:
Hound on the Sound
1.
Scales of Justice
2.
Treble with the Law
3.
Lawyer of Note
Thistlewood
Star Cozy Mysteries:
Baskerville for the Bear
1.
A Murder in Helvetica Bold
2.
Palatino for the Painter
3.
A Séance in Franklin Gothic
Tink Tank
Knitting Mysteries:
1.
Wrap and Turn
2.
Slip, Slip, Slay
