Come Shell or High Water

A Haunted Shell Shop Mystery, Book 1

De: Molly MacRae

Narrado por: Callie Beaulieu

As a professional storyteller, Maureen Nash can't help but see the narrative cues woven through her life. Like the series of letters addressed to her late husband from a stranger—the proprietor of The Moon Shell, a shop on Ocracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. The store is famous with shell collectors, but it's the cryptic letters from Allen Withrow, the shop's owner, that convince Maureen to travel to the small coastal town in the middle of hurricane season. At the very least, she expects she'll get a good story out of the experience, never anticipating it could end up a murder mystery . . .

In Maureen's first hours on the storm-lashed island, she averts several life-threatening accidents, stumbles over the body of a controversial Ocracoke local, and meets the ghost of an eighteenth-century Welsh pirate, Emrys Lloyd. To the untrained eye, all these unusual occurrences would seem to be random misfortunes, but Maureen senses there may be something connecting these stories. With Emrys's supernatural assistance, and the support of a few new friends, Maureen sets out unravel the truth, find a killer, and hopefully give this tale a satisfying ending . . . while also rewriting her own.

©2024 Molly MacRae (P)2024 Tantor

Great Characters, Narrator Put Me to Sleep

I enjoy all of Molly MacRae’s series, I am really looking forward to hanging out with the ones in this new one. I have to say, though, I found the narrator’s pacing particularly slow and it really annoyed me.

fun story line

the reader was hesitant made the characters all seem timid uncertain or insecure. I could enjoy this series if one of the previous narrators where include in the product.

Slow to start but it picked up

I found it difficult to get into at the beginning. After a while it started to become more coherent. Sadly, though, the reader couldn’t keep the characters’ voices straight, or maintain them. The ghost’s accent came and went within the same sentence sometimes, for example. Very hard to follow who was speaking at times, and she hesitates too much, even when hesitation doesn’t fit the text. I’m unlikely to buy anything else read by her!