Mesmerizing Moon

Bad Mojo #5

by Sharon A. Austin

During a séance the ghost of America’s first alleged female serial killer, Luciana Fisher, possesses Alma LeJeune. Taking up where Fisher left off, Alma drugs traveling businessmen spending the night at the Wayfarer Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. Before they pass out she escorts them to their room where the bed is rigged to a mechanism that lowers it to the cellar through a hole in the floorboards. In the cellar the sleeping men are hacked to pieces by Luciana and her husband, Jack, who has also returned from the dead. After dark, she feeds the body parts to her pet, a great white alligator.

One man who didn’t drink the tea escapes and leads authorities to the hotel. Alma—still trapped in a trancelike state and coming closer to being completely transformed into Luciana—is unable to resist arrest, much less defend herself when she’s on the verge of being hanged by the neck.

Where is BJ? Why did she leave her there all alone?

25 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 7, 2012

About the author

Sharon A. Austin writes stories with a crime at its core. Aspiring screenwriter. Avid cyclist. Loves being on the water, the great outdoors, and antique and classic cars.

Sharon is the author of three novels in the Hellfire mystery series--SMOKE ON THE WATER, FIRE FLICKS, ASHES OF VENGEANCE: interwoven tales of love, mystery, murder, and arson.

Featuring Sheriff Josh Wolfe of the Hellfire Trilogy, KILLING SUMMER, a stand-alone mystery novel, is a gritty tale where one partner in crime concocts a plan to extricate himself from murder.

In SERIAL QUILLER a crime writer embarks on a killing spree, by means of voodoo magic, and uses details of the murders to maintain her best-seller status with an episodic thriller series. (Bad Mojo series)