A missing friend, a singing ghost, a locked door…and a building full of secrets.
Holly thought the way out of her dead-end life was joining her oldest friend’s new business venture. After all, what could go wrong? Angie’s husband recently won a big one on the Lottery, so the start-up is covered, and it’s what she and Angie dreamed of doing for years. So when Angie announces she’s off on an exotic holiday the week before their candle and gift shop opens, Holly’s annoyed. Angie can afford for this to fail. Holly still needs to earn her living and she can’t. When Angie then seems to vanish off the face of the earth, Holly becomes really worried. Angie has a talent for infuriating people, so has she driven her husband to do something drastic – or is he her victim?
With them far away in the Caribbean, Holly can do nothing, and that gets worse when she discovers an unpleasant smell coming from the top floor, which she’s locked out of. When she is forced to overnight in the house, hearing a voice and fearing she’s not alone only increases her anxiety. Yet when she searches, she can never find anyone. Is someone gaslighting her, or is there something even stranger going on?
Support is at hand from the owners of The Renegade next door, but they’re not able to free her from suspicion as the police get involved in Angie and her husband’s disappearances, and Holly’s ability to trust by now is shattered. Has her oldest friend really betrayed her, or is there someone else involved with a hidden agenda? Yet learning to trust new friends and let go of old ones might be the only way Holly survives this.
Ideal for those who love Kate Morton, Elly Griffiths, Eve Chase, and Barbara Erskine style mysteries, Can’t Hold a Candle is a dual timeline psychological mystery of trust and betrayal, woven between the modern day and the seventeenth century.
Genre: Mystery
Holly thought the way out of her dead-end life was joining her oldest friend’s new business venture. After all, what could go wrong? Angie’s husband recently won a big one on the Lottery, so the start-up is covered, and it’s what she and Angie dreamed of doing for years. So when Angie announces she’s off on an exotic holiday the week before their candle and gift shop opens, Holly’s annoyed. Angie can afford for this to fail. Holly still needs to earn her living and she can’t. When Angie then seems to vanish off the face of the earth, Holly becomes really worried. Angie has a talent for infuriating people, so has she driven her husband to do something drastic – or is he her victim?
With them far away in the Caribbean, Holly can do nothing, and that gets worse when she discovers an unpleasant smell coming from the top floor, which she’s locked out of. When she is forced to overnight in the house, hearing a voice and fearing she’s not alone only increases her anxiety. Yet when she searches, she can never find anyone. Is someone gaslighting her, or is there something even stranger going on?
Support is at hand from the owners of The Renegade next door, but they’re not able to free her from suspicion as the police get involved in Angie and her husband’s disappearances, and Holly’s ability to trust by now is shattered. Has her oldest friend really betrayed her, or is there someone else involved with a hidden agenda? Yet learning to trust new friends and let go of old ones might be the only way Holly survives this.
Ideal for those who love Kate Morton, Elly Griffiths, Eve Chase, and Barbara Erskine style mysteries, Can’t Hold a Candle is a dual timeline psychological mystery of trust and betrayal, woven between the modern day and the seventeenth century.
Genre: Mystery
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