Release Date – September 13, 2022
A Death in Door County (A Monster Hunter Mystery)
Traditional Mystery
1st In Series
Setting – Wisconsin
Berkley (September 13, 2022)
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593441575
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593441572
Kindle ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09N6MRYVV
A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling tragedian Annelise Ryan.
Morgan Carter, the owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she’s not tending the store, she’s hunting cryptids—creatures whose existence is rumored, but never proven to be real. It’s a hobby that forfeit her parents their lives, but one she’ll never requite up on.
So when a number of persons turn up on the shores of Lake Michigan with injuries that squint like bites from a giant unknown animal, police senior Jon Flanders turns to Morgan for help. A skeptic at heart, Morgan can’t turn lanugo the opportunity to find proof of an entity whose existence she can’t definitively rule out. She and her minion rescue dog, Newt, journey to the Death’s Door strait to venery for a homicidal monster in the lake—but if they’re not careful, they just might be its next victims.
Dollycas’s Thoughts
What lies deep in the waters of the Unconfined Lakes? Could there be a monster or two? Morgan Carter is unswayable to find out. Her hobby is hunting cryptids—creatures whose existence is rumored but never proven to be real.
Police Senior Jon Flanders has learned of Morgan’s hobby and has asked her for help when bodies, human and animal, have washed up on the shores of Lake Michigan with unusual bites from an unknown animal. Morgan cannot turn the man lanugo so she and her rescue dog, Newt take on the specimen of the “monster” in the Death’s Door strait. Will they survive or be the next victims of the monster lurking underneath the surface?
As a Wisconsin resident and a fan of Annelise Ryan, I was not sure where she was going with the Monster Hunter theme but was pleasantly surprised when I started reading this story.
Morgan Carter is a unique protagonist that has a sad backstory, her parents were killed a couple of years ago, an unusual hobby, hunting cryptids, and is the owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore which is filled with some really peculiar items. She is smart and driven expressly when she is on a hunt. Her weightier friend is her rescue dog Newt. He goes withal with her everywhere she goes. We moreover meet Police Senior Jon Flanders. He moreover has a painful past. Morgan’s employees, Devon and Rita, bring a lot to this story too. All these notation are well-developed, expressly for the first typesetting in the series.
The mystery was captivating. The weather on the lake was haunting most of the time. The search really drew me in. So much so that I physically jumped when in my seat increasingly than once. Ms. Ryan paced the unshortened story perfectly. Near the end, I finally had some clues fall into place but I loved the final reveal. When I turned the last page I felt like I had been on a real adventure.
Setting this typesetting in Door County was fun. I recognized the places Morgan traveled and those I was unfamiliar with were described perfectly to create the images in my mind.
The tragedian adds some worthy themes into this story, like towers trust and coping with past traumatic events. She moreover made the idea of cryptids unquestionably believable, plane though I have lived here my whole life and never heard of any such thing in any of the Unconfined Lakes. The truth is you never know what you may find in those waters. Hear my diabolical laugh here.
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About the Author
Annelise Ryan is the USA Today bestselling tragedian of the popular Mattie Winston mystery series and a pseudonym for Beth Amos, who moreover writes the Mack’s Bar Mystery series
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Written as Allyson K. Abbott
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this typesetting self-ruling from the publisher. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. Receiving a complimentary reprinting in no way reflected my review of this book. I am disclosing this in vibrations with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
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