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Death in D Minor
| Title | Death in D Minor |
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| Date | 2025-06-30 23:09:10 |
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| Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
Gethsemane Brown, African-American classical musician and expatriate to an Irish village, solved a string of murders, led a school orchestra to victory in a major competition, and got used to living with a snarky ghost. She can rest easy over the Christmas holiday. Right? Wrong. The ghost has disappeared, her landlord's about to sell her cottage to a hotel developer, and her brother-in-law is coming for a visit—with one day’s notice. She scrambles to call her spectral roomie back from beyond and find a way to save the cottage from certain destruction. But real estate takes a backseat when her brother-in-law is accused of stealing a valuable antique. Gethsemane strikes a deal with a garda investigator to go undercover as a musician at a charity ball and snoop for evidence linking antiques to a forgery/theft ring in exchange for the investigator’s help clearing her brother-in-law. At the party, she accidentally conjures the ghost of an eighteenth-century sea captain, then ends up the prime suspect in the party host’s murder. With the captain’s help, she races to untangle a web of phony art and stolen antiques to exonerate herself and her brother-in-law. Then the killer targets her. Will she save herself and bring a thief and murderer to justice, or will her encore investigation become her swan song? Related subjects include: cozy mysteries, women sleuths, murder mystery series, whodunit mysteries (whodunnit), British mysteries, book club recommendations, amateur sleuth books, paranormal mysteries, Irish cozies, ghost mysteries, music mysteries. Books in the Gethsemane Brown Mystery Series: MURDER IN G MAJOR (#1) DEATH IN D MINOR (#2) Part of the Henery Press Mystery Series Collection, if you like one, you'll probably like them all…
Review
I always enjoy finding cozy mystery series that are a bit unusual, and this one, with Gethsemane Brown, talented musician, conductor and teacher who also has a knack for seeing ghosts in her newfound Ireland home, is quirky and different! This time, her brother-in-law art dealer, Jackson, who works at a museum has come for a visit, her cottage is about to be sold to developers, and when Jackson is framed for stealing an antique embroidered sampler at an art auction, things get complicated. Gethsemane goes to the house of a wealthy widow in town undercover as a musician at a charity ball, trying to get more information, and gets accused of murder. And of course, there are ghosts! This was another fun addition to the series with lots of musical and historical references. No scenes at the school or teaching, which I missed, but I liked the story that was told. Will definitely read on to the next book.
