Played by Death
(2023)(The second book in the Mackenzie Blue Mysteries series)
A novel by Kathryn Long
Cryptic messages and their voices with stories from the past lead the journey to help solve a mystery.
Sarah Mackenzie enjoys helping her Uncle Chaz with his writing. As his research assistant, she's made plenty of interesting discoveries, but sometimes those turn out to be unpleasant, even frightening, like the open grave she'd found in Cornplanter Cemetery last summer. Her uncle's latest project is to write about local artists, past and present. When Sarah makes a routine trip to retrieve a box with some valuable items belonging to the now deceased jazz musician, Sam Slimwell, the trip turns dangerous as she's confronted by a hijacker who steals Slimwell's possessions. Only minutes later, the thief ends up murdered, and the local sheriff has his judgmental eye on Sarah as a suspect.
To find the missing box and answers to the crime, Sarah discovers more about Slimwell's untimely death in a plane crash and his message about his lover which is hidden in a secret code that will reveal more than she bargained for. Unfortunately, others are desperately looking for the same answers and will stop at nothing to get what they want, even if that means harming Sarah. Her journey takes Sarah from the rural country surrounding her home, near the Kinzua Reservoir, to the city museum in Philadelphia. Fierce and undaunted, she's determined to find answers, and not even the threat of death by the hands of a killer will stop her.
**For more mystery, read book #1 BURIED IN SIN -- a body found in an open grave leads Sarah Mackenzie on a spiritual journey that proves both perilous and costly.
Genre: Mystery
Sarah Mackenzie enjoys helping her Uncle Chaz with his writing. As his research assistant, she's made plenty of interesting discoveries, but sometimes those turn out to be unpleasant, even frightening, like the open grave she'd found in Cornplanter Cemetery last summer. Her uncle's latest project is to write about local artists, past and present. When Sarah makes a routine trip to retrieve a box with some valuable items belonging to the now deceased jazz musician, Sam Slimwell, the trip turns dangerous as she's confronted by a hijacker who steals Slimwell's possessions. Only minutes later, the thief ends up murdered, and the local sheriff has his judgmental eye on Sarah as a suspect.
To find the missing box and answers to the crime, Sarah discovers more about Slimwell's untimely death in a plane crash and his message about his lover which is hidden in a secret code that will reveal more than she bargained for. Unfortunately, others are desperately looking for the same answers and will stop at nothing to get what they want, even if that means harming Sarah. Her journey takes Sarah from the rural country surrounding her home, near the Kinzua Reservoir, to the city museum in Philadelphia. Fierce and undaunted, she's determined to find answers, and not even the threat of death by the hands of a killer will stop her.
**For more mystery, read book #1 BURIED IN SIN -- a body found in an open grave leads Sarah Mackenzie on a spiritual journey that proves both perilous and costly.
Genre: Mystery
Used availability for Kathryn Long's Played by Death