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A review by thephdivabooks
Death Waits in the Dark by Julia Buckley
4.0
Nothing cools off a summer heat-wave in Blue Lake quite like a chilling murder! In Julia Buckley’s fourth installment of her Writer’s Apprentice cozy mystery series, a long buried secret surfaces and murder soon follows. With a menacing presence looming over the novel, readers will find this suspenseful cozy to be a perfect weekend mystery!
Bestselling author Camilla Graham and her apprentice Lena are avoiding the heatwave when an old acquaintance of Camilla’s Jane Wyland shows up unexpectedly. Jane is threatening to reveal an old secret about Camilla’s late husband James, and she won’t be reasoned with.
Things only get more bizarre when Jane Wyland is found murdered not one day after this mysterious visit. The most troubling part (besides the murder) is that Camilla has no idea what secret Jane was threatening to reveal!
But someone doesn’t want them to get to the truth…
I found Camilla to be such an intriguing figure in this novel. She’s reserved, talented, and distant. Yet she seems to be charmed by the most simple of life’s pleasures—pizza, for instance, is a novelty to Camilla. A party with friends is another novelty Camilla seems to not let herself experience. I loved seeing her wonder as she branched out a bit!
Lena herself has a fascinating storyline this book. When an accident occurs and it appears it may not have been so accidental, mysterious events follow. Lena finds herself hovering just on the edge of the answers she seeks, and she begins to doubt herself. Was it a memory or a fabrication?
This was ultimately a slightly different, but no less engaging, type of cozy. The murkiness of memory and the past seem to cast a shadow over the characters, giving it a somewhat ethereal feel. The mystery, though firmly grounded in reality, had a haunting feel to it made more prominent by Lena’s accident and reaction to her medication. And then there is a secret long buried in the past threatening to come to light.
A fresh twist on a cozy mystery that left me delighted!! Thank you to Berkley for my copy. Opinions are my own.
Bestselling author Camilla Graham and her apprentice Lena are avoiding the heatwave when an old acquaintance of Camilla’s Jane Wyland shows up unexpectedly. Jane is threatening to reveal an old secret about Camilla’s late husband James, and she won’t be reasoned with.
Things only get more bizarre when Jane Wyland is found murdered not one day after this mysterious visit. The most troubling part (besides the murder) is that Camilla has no idea what secret Jane was threatening to reveal!
But someone doesn’t want them to get to the truth…
I found Camilla to be such an intriguing figure in this novel. She’s reserved, talented, and distant. Yet she seems to be charmed by the most simple of life’s pleasures—pizza, for instance, is a novelty to Camilla. A party with friends is another novelty Camilla seems to not let herself experience. I loved seeing her wonder as she branched out a bit!
Lena herself has a fascinating storyline this book. When an accident occurs and it appears it may not have been so accidental, mysterious events follow. Lena finds herself hovering just on the edge of the answers she seeks, and she begins to doubt herself. Was it a memory or a fabrication?
This was ultimately a slightly different, but no less engaging, type of cozy. The murkiness of memory and the past seem to cast a shadow over the characters, giving it a somewhat ethereal feel. The mystery, though firmly grounded in reality, had a haunting feel to it made more prominent by Lena’s accident and reaction to her medication. And then there is a secret long buried in the past threatening to come to light.
A fresh twist on a cozy mystery that left me delighted!! Thank you to Berkley for my copy. Opinions are my own.