Dead Girl Blues
A Taxi for the Dead Novel
By Joyce and Jim Lavene
By the National Bestselling Authors of Broken Hearted Ghoul and
Dae’s Christmas Past
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.
Life was simpler when she could just take out a gun and
shoot someone.
Praise for the fantasy mysteries of Joyce and Jim Lavene:
Missing Pieces Mysteries:
“Paranormal amateur sleuth fans will enjoy observing Dae use
cognitive and ESP mental processes to uncover a murderer…Readers will enjoy.” ~
Midwest Book Review
Renaissance Faire Mysteries
“Murderous Matrimony
is the first book Ren Faire Mysteries that I have read. It is not only a cozy
mystery, but full of surprises. It is charming, silly, fantasy, history,
romantic, haunted and crazy. You are not sure what to believe is real, and what
parts are not. The characters are a
variety of fun and crazy people. They have wizards, a fortune teller, and more
fun characters waiting for you in every chapter.” ~ R. Laney
Retired Witches Mysteries:
“A delightful premise, a couple of enchanting protagonists,
and cats as essential familiars . . . It is a promising series for urban
fantasy and paranormal mystery readers.”—Library Journal
Joyce and Jim Lavene write award-winning, best-selling mystery fiction and urban fantasy as themselves, J.J. Cook, and Ellie Grant. They have written and published more than 70 novels for Harlequin, Penguin, Amazon, and Simon and Schuster along with hundreds of non-fiction articles for national and regional publications. They live in rural North Carolina with their family. Visit them at www.joyceandjimlavene.com.
Book One in the Taxi for the Dead Paranormal Mysteries:
Broken Hearted Ghoul
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