It is my pleasure to share with you the cover reveal for the first book in the new “Haunted Shell Shop” mystery series, coming June 2024 and now up for preorder.
Publication Date: June 25, 2024
Publisher: Kensington Books
Format: Print, Digital, Audio
Name of Series: Haunted Shell Shop, Book #1
Genre: Cozy Mystery, Paranormal
Author Website: MollyMacRae.com
Book Synopsis
When widowed folklorist Maureen Nash visits a legendary North Carolina barrier island shell shop, she discovers its resident ghost pirate and the mystery of a local’s untimely death . . .
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.
About the author
The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” In addition to the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries, Molly writes the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch she writes books for Annie’s Fiction and Guideposts. Molly’s short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction.
Thanks for the revealing, Dru! I love this cover.
That is such a beautiful cover, Molly! And any story with a ghost catches my attention. 😉 Looking forward to next June!
Rose
This looks amazing. Can’t wait to read it.
Thank you!
Thanks, Rosalie! The ghost looks forward to meeting you. 🙂
This sounds amazing and I know in the hands of Molly Macrae, it will be all it promises to be. Perfect cover! I’m very excited for this one!
Thank you, Korina! I’m honored by your compliments.
Congratulations on your new series, Molly! The cover is adorable!
Thanks, Kim! It makes me smile every time I look at it.
I love ghost stories! This sounds wonderful.
Thank you, Judi!
I love the cover! It sounds very good. Thank you
Thanks, Penney. The cover artists did a bang up job, didn’t they?
The story sounds somewhat macabre, but in a good fictional way.
The cover is eye catching.
🙂 Thanks, Kathleen.
I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this book. It looks very entertaining.