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A review by ncrabb
A Bat in the Belfry by Sarah Graves
3.0
In this book, Graves introduces readers to her new main character in a new series. You meet former Boston Cop Lizzie Snow. She has left her job in Boston and journeyed to Eastport, Maine where her troubled sister once lived with a child. Lizzie is looking for the child. Interestingly enough, Graves portrays her rather negatively in this book. I’m glad I’ve already read the first book in the Lizzie Snow series, because she’s much more likable there. Had I not already read it, I might not have been interested in starting it.
Karen is 14 the night someone murders her in the belfry of the old church—a belfry no one enters any more. It is in a state of disrepair and has been so for many years. But for reasons no one understands initially, the bell begins ringing the night someone murders 14-year-old Karen. She climbed up there on a dare. Those who sent her up there promised her 50 bucks if she would climb all the way to the top. The guy murdered her instead. The cops might never have found her body had the bell not mysteriously begun ringing.
Home fixer upper Jake Tiptree is the main character in this long-running series. She came to Eastport years earlier hoping her son would escape a drug habit and she could escape a hostile ex-husband. The hostile ex moved to Eastport, but the kid kicked the drugs. In this book, the sheriff charges one of her now-drug-free son’s friends with the murder of the teenage girl, and it’s up to Jake and her amateur sleuth friend Ellie to prove that the guy is innocent. All the while, they’re racing against an incoming nor’easter.
Karen is 14 the night someone murders her in the belfry of the old church—a belfry no one enters any more. It is in a state of disrepair and has been so for many years. But for reasons no one understands initially, the bell begins ringing the night someone murders 14-year-old Karen. She climbed up there on a dare. Those who sent her up there promised her 50 bucks if she would climb all the way to the top. The guy murdered her instead. The cops might never have found her body had the bell not mysteriously begun ringing.
Home fixer upper Jake Tiptree is the main character in this long-running series. She came to Eastport years earlier hoping her son would escape a drug habit and she could escape a hostile ex-husband. The hostile ex moved to Eastport, but the kid kicked the drugs. In this book, the sheriff charges one of her now-drug-free son’s friends with the murder of the teenage girl, and it’s up to Jake and her amateur sleuth friend Ellie to prove that the guy is innocent. All the while, they’re racing against an incoming nor’easter.