Rituals (Faye Longchamp Series #8)

by Mary Anna Evans

Overview

Archaeologist Faye Longchamp doesn't believe in ghosts. But in Rosebower, New York, the site of her most recent dig, people most certainly do. This community of spiritualists seems harmlessuntil their most prominent citizen, Tilda Armistead, dies. Evidence says that someone trapped Tilda in a small room before setting her home on fire. There is no possible way for Tilda to have escaped the blaze, let alone drive for miles before finding Faye and dying in her arms. Yet Tilda did. How? And why? Faye tries to uncover the truth, watching as the psychics and charlatans jockey for power. Will Rosebower reveal its secrets to Faye before more goes up in flames?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781482931990
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	11/05/2013
Series:	Faye Longchamp Series , #8
Edition description:	Unabridged
Pages:	8
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 5.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mary Anna Evans is the author of the Faye Longchamp archaeological mysteries, which have received recognition including the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Mississippi Author Award, and three Florida Book Awards bronze medals. She is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches fiction and nonfiction writing.

Check out her website, enewsletter, facebook author page, and twitter.Winner of the 2018 Sisters in Crime (SinC) Academic Research Grant

Editorial Reviews

"A suspenseful crime story with just a hint of something otherworldly." — David Pitt, Booklist

"A superior puzzle plot lifts Evans' eighth Faye Longchamp mystery...Evans pulls all the pieces nicely together in the end." — Publishers Weekly

"The emphasis on the spirit world makes this a bit of a departure from Evans' usual historical and archaeological themes, but it's certainly a well-plotted and enjoyable mystery." — Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2013-10-02
A small town in upstate New York is a haven for Spiritualists and murder. Archaeologist Faye Longchamp Mantooth and her adopted daughter, Amande, have taken a job updating a museum in Rosebower while Faye's husband stays home with their young son. The museum owner is a history buff who never turns away any contribution, no matter how worthless, and has some oddly racist ideas on the worth of some of his collection. The Armistead family, especially talented Spiritualist Tilda, has a great deal of influence in Rosebower, whose citizens are deeply divided over the direction in which the town is moving. An hour after Faye, Amande and Tilda's sister Myrna take part in a séance, the house burns down with Tilda nailed into the tiny séance room, left to die. Among the suspects are Tilda's estranged daughter and her husband, a sexy magician, who have their eyes on Tilda's land. The show they put on every night garners the couple a very nice living, but the husband is plotting with a developer who has plans to turn Rosebower into a sort of Disneyland for believers in ghosts. Also in town is a part-time magician whose work on a book debunking the whole Spiritualist idea may make her the next target for murder. Faye and Amande, who are worried about Myrna, whose health is rapidly and suspiciously deteriorating, are convinced they need to find the killer before there's another murder. The emphasis on the spirit world makes this a bit of a departure from Evans' usual historical and archaeological themes (Plunder, 2012, etc.), but it's certainly a well-plotted and enjoyable mystery.

Kirkus Reviews