Book Review for Widow's Walk by Raemi A. Ray

 

Synopsis of Widow’s Walk (from Amazon):

Attorney Kyra Gibson has a lot on her mind this Thanksgiving. She’s been working long hours on a multi-billion dollar corporate merger, her family is visiting from London, and her relationship with former police detective Tarek Collins is heating up. When she and her companions are invited by her aristocrat client to attend a formal gala at a historic mansion on Chappaquiddick, Kyra reluctantly agrees.

But Chappy is more than just a playground for the wealthy. It’s a wild, remote place cut off from civilization. When the first body is found, the occupants are worried. Was it an accident or murder? When a second guest is brutally killed and then a third, there’s no doubt and the guests fearfully turn on each other. They are locked in a house with a murderer picking them off one-by-one. Kyra, her best friend Chase Hawthorn, and Tarek must survive the night and find the killer, or one of them could be next.

 

My Thoughts:  From the very beginning this book was destine to keep me up at night needing to read more.    Kyra and Tarek are going on a Thanksgiving adventure.   What an adventure this ends up being… A mansion that is like a maze is the setting and nothing is as it seems in this place.  There is secret entries to many of the rooms, there are basements with odd steps and rooms, and an off limits widows walk.  Everything about this mansion is meant to keep things interesting.

Widow’s Walk is book 3 in the Martha Vineyard Murders series.  It is the perfect addition to a great mystery thriller series.  The characters were quirky and unique.  There are quite a few new characters in this book and I was intrigued to learn about them.  Each one had their own reason to murder or be murdered. 

I have enjoyed all three books in this series.  If you are a murder mystery reader, like myself, I recommend picking up your own copy of any of the books in this series and enjoying their story. 

 Widow’s Walk:

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3zWiYTl

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214254934-widow-s-walk

Author bio:

Raemi A Ray’s travels to Martha’s Vineyard and around the world inspire her stories. She lives outside Boston. When not writing or traveling she earns her keep as the personal assistant to the resident house demons, Otto and DolphLundgren.

 

Website: https://raemiray.com/

Instagram: @miss_raemi

 

 

Synopsis of The Wraith’s Return (from Amazon):

London based lawyer Kyra Gibson returns to Martha’s Vineyard and the beach house she inherited for an extended summer holiday. Still reeling from her father’s brutal murder and the role she and the handsome detective, Tarek Collins played in uncovering it, Kyra is hopeful for some peace and quiet. But when a summer squall reveals the wreckage of the pirate ship, Keres, rich with rumored treasure, all hopes of peace are dashed. Conservationists and treasure hunters descend on the exclusive island to lay claim to the ship. When two of the salvagers are killed, Kyra and Tarek’s friend, pub owner and amateur historian, Gully Gould is arrested for murder.

Determined to prove Gully’s innocence, Kyra, Tarek, and reformed playboy Chase Hawthorn team up to clear their friend’s name. But someone wants the treasure for themselves. And with someone willing to kill for it, there is more than just danger lurking along the island’s caves and coves. There is death.

Both novels are from the Martha’s Vineyard Murders series, which starts with A Chain of Pearls. They can be read as standalones.

The Wraith’s Return:

Amazon: https://amzn.to/4cD5wkk

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217979895-the-wraith-s-return