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A review by camilleisreading24
The Bone Cay by Eliza Nellums
5.0
Thank you NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for an ARC in exchange for my honest review!
Magda is the passionate curator of a historic home in the Florida Keys. Famous as the home of poet Isobel Reyes, Whimbrel House is a tourist attraction and school field trip destination. From meticulously restoring the furniture and books in the home to be authentic to the time, to giving tours of the house and quoting Isobel’s poems, Magda eats, sleeps and breathes her job. The home has an added mystery in the fact that Isobel met her untimely death when she drowned in the cove behind the house. The story has inspired copycat deaths over the years, but it’s nothing Magda can’t handle.
With a hurricane bearing down, the Keys are evacuated. But Magda decides to hunker down in Whimbrel House during the storm. She will do anything to keep the home intact and unharmed. But it quickly becomes clear the storm is more powerful than anticipated and multiple disasters threaten to take Magda and Whimbrel House down. And then a man and his daughter arrive seeking refuge, and threatening the tenuous safety Magda has found…
I loved this book! It’s a survival thriller with multiple mysteries. The setting is so atmospheric. I have read and loved many blizzard mysteries but never one with an active hurricane. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I understood how much Magda loved the house and her job, and why she decided to stay there during the storm. I wholeheartedly recommend this entertaining book.
Magda is the passionate curator of a historic home in the Florida Keys. Famous as the home of poet Isobel Reyes, Whimbrel House is a tourist attraction and school field trip destination. From meticulously restoring the furniture and books in the home to be authentic to the time, to giving tours of the house and quoting Isobel’s poems, Magda eats, sleeps and breathes her job. The home has an added mystery in the fact that Isobel met her untimely death when she drowned in the cove behind the house. The story has inspired copycat deaths over the years, but it’s nothing Magda can’t handle.
With a hurricane bearing down, the Keys are evacuated. But Magda decides to hunker down in Whimbrel House during the storm. She will do anything to keep the home intact and unharmed. But it quickly becomes clear the storm is more powerful than anticipated and multiple disasters threaten to take Magda and Whimbrel House down. And then a man and his daughter arrive seeking refuge, and threatening the tenuous safety Magda has found…
I loved this book! It’s a survival thriller with multiple mysteries. The setting is so atmospheric. I have read and loved many blizzard mysteries but never one with an active hurricane. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I understood how much Magda loved the house and her job, and why she decided to stay there during the storm. I wholeheartedly recommend this entertaining book.