Dead Girl Blues by Joyce and Jim Lavene review and guest post.
Dead Girl Blues
by Joyce and Jim Lavene
Dead Girl Blues
By Joyce and Jim Lavene
• Genre – Cozy Mystery (PARANORMAL)
When Nashville cop Skye Mertz and her husband, Jacob, are killed in a wreck, Skye is given the opportunity to come back for twenty years to raise her five-year-old daughter, Kate. With her ghostly mother-in-law’s help, Skye hopes to be there until Kate is old enough to take care of herself.
But three years into her twenty-year service to Abraham Lincoln Jones, the man who gave her the extra time, Skye is beginning to think life might have been easier before she died.
Abe asks her to investigate the murder of his sorcerer, Harold the Great, a man who was a victim of too many snakes. And the Life Extended People (LEPs – a nice term for zombies) who work for Abe have begun turning into ghosts and disappearing. Only Lucas, the possibly evil, amnesiac sorcerer who lives with Skye and her family, can save her from being the next victim of the deadly curse.
To make matters more complicated, Skye has found a lead in solving the riddle of her husband’s death. She has never believed Jacob died as a result of the crash, but hasn’t been able to prove it. Many other people have lost their lives in the same lonely stretch of highway that he did three years before. Skye goes against Abe’s express wishes to discover the truth with a crazy man bent on vengeance.
My thoughts:
Guest Post
Dead Girl Blues
By Joyce and Jim Lavene
Why write mystery with paranormal?
We don’t know – why not? We think the two go hand-in-hand. We like romance and mystery too. Maybe we’re like those fruity flavors – all mixed up!
We’ve always been interested in the supernatural/paranormal. Why does science refuse to see ghosts as a real thing?
There have been ghost stories for as long as there have been people. They say it was easy to understand a thousand years ago when people were trying to explain why storms happened and why there were earthquakes.
But what about today?
We’ve gone out with ghost hunters, and they are amazing. They’re braver than we are and well prepared for the things that happen. And don’t kid yourself – things happen that can’t be explained with science.
Jim and I have both seen ghostly members of our families when we were children, and as adults. We know witches and paranormal investigators who are always trying to find ways to explain how and why these things happen.
We recently read that more than half the people in the world have experienced some type of paranormal/supernatural phenomenon. Yet most are afraid to talk about what they’ve seen or heard. They’re afraid people will look down on them.
And yet, the supernatural continues – even though we know what causes earthquakes and that thunder is more than angels bowling.
We want to ask the questions about what happens to ordinary people who get involved in supernatural events. That’s how we started writing the Taxi for the Dead Mysteries. Our heroine is a cop who dies and is brought back for another twenty years to stay with her daughter while she’s growing up.
It’s not easy accepting what she knows about herself – or that her mother-in-law is a ghost. Skye isn’t the kind of person who can let go of who she was or not ask the tough questions about how this is possible. The world expands after her death to include things like werewolves and sorcerers that she wouldn’t have believed when she was still alive.
Is it possible there is something more out there than just what we can see and touch?
What about black holes? What about gravity? What about solar flares?
Two hundred years ago, people would have called that witchcraft.
Today, we call it science.
About The Authors
Joyce and Jim Lavene write award-winning, bestselling mystery fiction as themselves, J.J. Cook, and Ellie Grant. They have written and published more than 70 novels for Harlequin, Berkley, Amazon, and Gallery Books along with hundreds of non-fiction articles for national and regional publications. They live in rural North Carolina with their family.
Author Links
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http://amazon.com/author/jlavene
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Purchase Links Coming Soon!
First Book in Series
Broken Hearted Ghoul (Taxi for the Dead Paranormal Mysteries) (Volume 1)
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