Hyde & Seek is the second book in a new paranormal cozy mystery series. If you like adventure, fabled stories, and secret societies, then one-click this book today for a mixed dose of magic and macabre.They say there’s a little monster in all of us, but is yours trying to kill anyone?Once again, it’s time for one of Bohemian Lake’s Gas Lamp Literary Tours. The Bohemian Book Club has been … Club has been reading about morally suspect monsters of the Victorian era. Namely, the ones featured in the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as well as Sherlock Holmes and they’re off to Edinburgh and London to immerse themselves in gothic architecture and Victorian Villains.
But when they get to the second half of the trip, Sera Popescu is shocked to realize that her boss, Nelle Storey, world-renowned mystery writer and owner of Gas Lamp Literary Tours is more interested in the mean streets of the Victorian East End than Soho, claiming the literature written by their spotlight authors is linked to the Ripper.
She even arranges for them to take a truly atmospheric route leading straight into the old, narrow alleyways and murder sites and locations related to the grisly murders. Unfortunately, somewhere between the Greyfriars Kirkyard and the Lyceum Theatre they become embroiled in an actual murder, and the details suspiciously coincide with the strange tale of Jekyll and Hyde.
Bookish Adventures in Witch-Lit Series
Book 1: Scandal & Gretel
Book 2: Hyde & Seek
Book 3: Night of the Living Well-Read
Recommended Reading Order by Date Published:
A Penning Trouble Mystery: Murder, She Floats
Haunted House Flippers Cookies, Corpses & the Deadly Haunt
A Penning Trouble Mystery: Murder, She Slopes
Haunted House Flippers: Candy Canes, Corpses & the Gothic Haunt
Bohemian Murder Manor: Gypsies, Traps & Missing Thieves
Bohemian Murder Manor: Make-Believes & Lost Memories
Haunted House Flippers: Crumb Cake, Corpses & the Run-of-the-Mill
A Penning Trouble Mystery: Murder, Ye Bones
Bohemian Festival Fiasco: Nuttier than Pecan Pie
Bohemian Murder Manor: Ouija, Death & Wicked Witchery
Haunted House Flippers: Crème Eggs, Corpses & the Farmhouse Fixer
Bookish Adventures in Witch-Lit: Scandal & Gretel
Hexing Holidays in Bohemian Lake: Mistletoe and Hauntings
Bookish Adventures in Witch-Lit: Hyde & Seek
A Penning Trouble Mystery: Murder in the Catacombs
Hexing Holidays in Bohemian Lake: My Evil Valentine Elixir (Stirring Up Love & Mystery Anthology)
Bookish Adventures in Witch-Lit: Night of the Living Well-Read
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I loved this book. Sera and the group are in Britain for their book club tour. The members of the group are being targeted one by one. Is the guilty party one of their own? Is it somehow linked to the Jack The Ripper case from so long ago? Sera needed to find out before they come after her.
Enjoyable!
What an enjoyable story, right from the start! Edinburgh really came to life; I want to go there now! And the whole book was very intriguing and cleverly done.
This book isn’t a standalone. Don’t worry, the main mystery of the book itself is completely wrapped up! Maybe a little outside the box, but I happen to not always need to stay INSIDE the box. There is clearly more to come and I can’t wait; I loved it!
On their second ‘Gas Lamp Literary Tour,’ Sera Popescu and the rest of the Bohemian Lake book club members are touring Edinburgh, Scotland, and learning about Robert Lewis Stevenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.” With tour director, Nelle Story, in London preparing the way for part two of the tour, Sera and her fellow bookstore staffer, Hansen Dressler, accompany the group to the various relevant sites (i.e., museums, spooky after-hours haunted cemeteries.) However, when one of the participants, Daniel Brodey, is discovered hanging from a tree during one of the cemetery tours, an apparent suicide, and another goes missing, Sera begins to suspect the witch hunter organization that plagued them during their previous tour is back. When the attacks against the group continue in London, Dr. Gretchen Dressler (Hansen’s sister) begins to act more erratically than ever, and Nelle Story seems to have secrets of her own to hide as well, Sera starts to look at the project materials Nelle has regarding her investigation of the Jack the Ripper case for possible connections.
This second outing for Sera, Hansen, and the book club from Bohemian Lake was every bit as dark as the previous one with quite a few deaths and some adult themes as well. It still tracks a well-known literary tale: this time a double dose. The authors did a good job of matching up aspects of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde theme and creating a very interesting plotline dealing with Nelle’s ongoing research in the mystery of Jack the Ripper. We have another trip with characters from book one and learn more about them all. We also get a fun, virtual tour through Edinburgh and London, courtesy of ‘Gas Lamp Literary Tours,’ which really sets the scene in both history-laden cities.
I recommend this book to cozy mystery readers that don’t mind a little witchy magic in their stores and those that like a literary link. It is best to read the first book in this trilogy before jumping in here on book two, if not the entire Bohemian Lake series. They are very good, each one, and I highly recommend those as well.
This is a fun series! Can’t wait for more.
This time Sera is off to Edinburgh, Scotland and London, England to study Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Jack the Ripper but their group starts dwindling in size. Can Sera figure out who is bumping off the literary club and why before there is another victim? A little romance, some history, and plenty of twists and turns to keep me interested until the very end. This is such a fun series!
I received an ARC. This is my honest review.