E L Wilder

Killed and Raised in a Barn E L Wilder

Hazel Bennett is on the run.

After a mysterious benefactor breaks her out of a jail in the magical town of Quark, Hazel wants nothing more than to return to her quiet life at Bennett Farms.

But it looks like somebody has left the door to the afterlife wide open, and now, with Halloween just days away, the farm is crawling with ghosts and ghouls.

To make matters worse, her freedom has come with strings attached. Her benefactor has asked her to investigate a string of Halloween murders going back nearly two hundred years. And if the pattern holds true, another victim will be claimed by the time the farm's Halloween Extravaganza comes to a close.

With time running out, Hazel has no leads and no suspects. Fortunately, the victims walk amongst the undead horde haunting the farm. Now she just needs to get them to cooperate long enough to untangle the web that connects them-a banshee with a chronic keening problem, a ghoul with a chip on his shoulder, and two poltergeists who keep egging each other on. Maybe then she can stop the murderer before they strike again . . . and before the agents of Quark recapture her.

But each thread she pulls on threatens to unravel some long-hidden Bennett-family secret.

Killed and Raised in a Barn is the fifth book in the Farm to Fable Paranormal Cozy Mystery series. The story is packed with spellcasters, mythical creatures, and all the things that make Vermont a quirky little state. The tales are sometimes deadly serious, sometimes deadly funny, and sometimes just deadly.