Dead in the Water: A Grim Days Mystery
The sleepy beach town of Summer Haven is waking up to a new nightmare—reality TV!
Lance Avery—host of the popular adventure documentary show "Mysterious Expedition"—is in town to investigate a sunken shipwreck rumored to be the flagship of the infamous pirate Baron Tombstone, allegedly the last known possessor of a mystical artifact known as the Hand of Cain.
Summer Haven Police Chief Becca Cole knows all about the Hand of Cain. For the last year, she's been investigating mysterious deaths tied to the artifact with a little help from the unlikeliest of partners—the Grim Reaper...Death himself incarnate in the flesh of one Silas Mot who has temporarily relocated to Summer Haven to discover why people are dying before their time.
When an inexplicable tragedy strikes the TV production rumors abound that the death can only be attributed to "supernatural causes" but Becca is determined to find an all-too-human killer.
Meanwhile Silas is facing a different sort of crisis. With each bizarre death he's losing his powers inexplicably transforming into a mere mortal. If Becca and Silas can't solve this latest mystery it will mean the end of his job as harvester of souls to say nothing of his very existence.
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Book details
- Author
- J. Kent Holloway
- Imprint
- Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 294
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Grim Days Mysteries
- Subjects
- Fiction › Mystery & Detective
Fiction › Mystery & Detective › Traditional
Fiction › Mystery & Detective › Amateur Sleuth - Topics
- cozy mystery · amateur sleuth · grim reaper · supernatural mystery · beach town setting · pirate treasure · reality TV · police chief protagonist
- ISBN-13
- 9798987684726
About the author
J. KENT HOLLOWAY is a forensic death investigator with more than twenty-seven years of experience and the author of Killypso Island, Clean Exit and I Died Swallowing a Goldfish and Other Life Lessons from the Morgue.
Holloway holds a Master’s degree in Biblical Studies from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and has served as singles minister, evangelism pastor, and director of discipleship and education.
When he’s not writing, Holloway draws on his forensic background to explore the folklore and superstitions of death. Much of his fiction channels that expertise into mysteries and forensic crime thrillers.
Kent lives in Florida.