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Strange Tombs
Strange Tombs: An Essex Witch Museum Mystery | Syd Moore
8 posts | 4 read | 3 to read
Halloween in Essex, and things are going well for the writers on the Mystery and Suspense course at old Ratchette Hall. Things however take a turn for the downright nasty when early on All Saints Day the course administrator is discovered dead in the hall. Lips drawn back, eyes wide open, his face a mask of utter terror, it looks to all intents and purposes that Graham has been scared to death. When he is found to be clutching a cold stone finger the writers are thrown into confusion and fear, convinced the long dead knights have claimed his soul. But how could the marble effigies have come back to life on Halloween? And why would anyone, dead or alive, want to kill mild-mannered Graham? There is only one way to get to the bottom of the mystery and the Essex Witch Museum investigators are quickly drafted in. Very soon, however, Rosie and Sam realise not everything, and everyone are what they seem at Ratchette Hall, appearances can be deceiving, someone certainly has a grudge. As their investigation progresses they find more questions than answers: who is making the unearthly howling noises late into the night? What is the strange glimmering glimpsed in the woods about the Hall? Why is one of the church crusaders missing a finger? And what of the enigma of the ancient empty tomb? When another one of the writers turns up dead Rosie and Sam realise strange forces are at play. The pair must use their experience of folklore, mystery and magic as well as their wits to solve the mystery before the body count grows.
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⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ I love The Essex Witch Museum Mystery series. Just the right amount of creepy and cozy. I earned a total of 105 points for this one. #Scarathlon #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall

FlynnDewey Awesome cover! Glad it was a good read! 13mo
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Day 2 of the #Scarathlon Photo Challenge - Skeleton/Bones. I chose Strange Tombs because of the skull on the cover and the title. It is also my next read after finishing Changes by Jim Butcher. #TeamWhoYaGonnaCall

bthegood 👻👻 14mo
FlynnDewey Solid choice! Well done. 14mo
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✅ Always bring a book.
❌ Never feed your book to a dinosaur.

Taken at ZooLights in Phoenix a couple weeks ago.

#WinterReadathonDailyChallenge
#WinterReadathon
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🌲 I finished a book! 15 points for the
#WinterReadathon
🌲 Taken at the Grand Canyon
🧙🏻 Thank you again @Velvetfur for this book from the #BasicWitchSwap !

LiseWorks What a view 2y
PaperbackPirate Wasn‘t hard to take a picture @LiseWorks ! 😍 2y
Velvetfur Aaww you're welcome! 🥰 2y
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You can count me in for the #NovelNovember #Readathon with @Andrew65 because I‘m off all week!
My goal is to
💀 finish Strange Tombs - 307 pages
☠️ read Born to Be Hanged - 384 pages
🟰 691 pages

Andrew65 Great timing. Great to have you with us and good luck 😁 2y
PaperbackPirate Thank you @Andrew65 ! You too! 📚 2y
Andrew65 @PaperbackPirate Thanks 😁 2y
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It‘s my It‘s-never-going-to-happen-this-month dream #tbr stack.
🐭 Maus 1 by Art Spiegelman for #BannedBooksWeek
☠️ tagged and Granta 113 for the #MonthlyKeyWordgxo challenge
🎹 finish my #arc Book of Extraordinary Tragedies by Joe Meno
🌱 Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer for #BookClub
🧛🏻‍♂️ The Southern Book Club‘s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix for a challenge on #LibraryThing
🧙🏻The Change by Kirsten Miller
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🖤 I woke up this morning, and look what I found under my eyeball Halloween tree! Thank you @Velvetfur for my awesome #BasicWitchSwap package! I feel so fortunate to not only have things from my list, but especially to receive a book so personal to you!
🧡 Thank you for bringing so much delight to my Halloween!
🎃 Happy Halloween!
💜 Thank you for hosting @Meaw_catlady & @sprainedbrain !

Sleepswithbooks Eyeball Halloween Tree 😂 4y
PaperbackPirate @Stacypatrice 👁🎄🎃😅🖤🧡 4y
Velvetfur Aaww I'm glad you like everything! And you're welcome 😊 💜 4y
Meaw_catlady Happy Halloween!!! Blessed Samhain! 🖤✨🌙 4y
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VanessaCW
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Imaginatively and humorously written, this fourth book in the series definitely has things which bump in the night! It reminded me of an Agatha Christie mystery meeting a game of Cluedo with a bit of hocus pocus thrown in. There is still the ‘will they, won‘t they‘ scenario with the main characters but I‘m forever hopeful for them. If I‘m to be picky, I thought it did get a little long winded at times. Even so, it‘s still an entertaining story.