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A Death in Door County

by Annelise Ryan

A Door County mystery with a cryptid question

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A Door County mystery with a cryptid question

Set around Door County and Lake Michigan’s Death’s Door, the mystery brings together a bookstore owner’s interest in cryptids and a police investigation into deaths marked by unusual bite wounds. Morgan Carter approaches the possibility of a lake monster with skepticism, but the evidence is enough to draw her into the search. Her work as a cryptozoologist, the local setting, and the unresolved question of whether the creature is real give the investigation its distinctive shape. This is the opening book in a mystery series centered on Morgan and her rescue dog, Newt.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Mystery readers interested in women sleuths and amateur investigations.
  • Readers drawn to cryptids, lake-monster lore, and Wisconsin settings.
  • Those looking for the start of a mystery series featuring a bookstore owner and her dog.

Themes

Cryptids and folkloreInvestigation and skepticismCommunity and local setting

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Book overview

A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan.

Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she's not tending the store, she's hunting cryptids--creatures whose existence is rumored, but never proven to be real. It's a hobby that cost her parents their lives, but one she'll never give up on.

So when a number of bodies turn up on the shores of Lake Michigan with injuries that look like bites from a giant unknown animal, police chief Jon Flanders turns to Morgan for help. A skeptic at heart, Morgan can't turn down the opportunity to find proof of an entity whose existence she can't definitively rule out. She and her beloved rescue dog, Newt, journey to the the strait known as Death's Door to hunt for a homicidal monster in the lake--but if they're not careful, she just might be its next victim.
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