Mabel and the Unholy Night Epic Book Launch

About the Book 

Book: Mabel and the Unholy Night (Mysteries of Medicine Spring Book Four) 

Author: Susan Kimmel Wright 

Genre: Cozy Mystery 

Release date: November 5, 2024 

 

Faithful dog Barnacle has run off into a snowstorm, disrupting Mabel’s fun outing at the Christmas tree farm. Things don’t improve much when he reappears…with a human skull. 

 

Since Mabel moved into her late grandma’s house, the sleepy village of Medicine Spring has provided clean air, a close-knit community, and charming small-town shops. To her surprise, it’s also offered up several murders—and romance with a handsome private investigator. Now, Barnacle’s discovery plunges Mabel into the mystery surrounding a decades-old unsolved murder and the disappearance of her friend Nita’s great uncle. 

 

Before Mabel, boyfriend John, and her friends can find answers and bring justice for Nita and her family, more complications develop. Incredibly, a sixty-year-old Christmas card arrives, bearing Mabel’s name and address and containing a plea for help. Are the mysteries related? 

 

While Mabel tries to get to the bottom of these strange events, a second suspicious death casts suspicion on Nita. Can Mabel find the real killer in time? Or will her Christmas season end on an unholy night? 

 

Book Excerpt 

 

 He was right, Mabel supposed. They hardly ever got snow for Christmas down here in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania. Easter, maybe—that had happened a couple of times. “It’s beautiful, anyway. Enjoy it while it lasts.” John grinned and tilted his face up into the swirling flakes. He grabbed Mabel’s mittened hand and began towing her along the slope. “How about a spruce? They hold onto their needles pretty well.” Mabel had no preference. It was enough for her to be part of this magical snow globe scene with John. A few months ago, she’d been single, turning fifty, and recently fired from her longtime, dead-end job as a lawyer. The firm had claimed she’d been a bit brusque with a few clients—who, in her opinion, had certainly had it coming. Mabel had successfully challenged her firing, to the tune of a nice, fat wrongful-termination settlement. Since moving to her late grandma’s house in the village of Medicine Spring, she’d passed the 5-0 mark and was still unemployed—but now, she had a boyfriend. Private investigator John Bigelow was smart and kind and thought Mabel was wonderful. That she found him handsome was just a bonus.

  

  

About the Author 

Susan Kimmel Wright began her life of mystery in childhood, with reading. That led to writing kids’ mysteries and eventually to Medicine Spring with Mabel. A longtime member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime, Susan’s also a prolific writer of personal experience stories, many for Chicken Soup for the Soul. She shares an 1875 farmhouse in southwestern PA with her husband, several dogs and cats, and an allegedly excessive stockpile of coffee and tea mugs.