Vanished

Blackpool Mystery #2

by Jordan Gray

Locals in the English coastal town of Blackpool don't take kindly to strangers, but newcomers Michael and Molly Graham have managed to make a few good friends. Dylan Stewart has encouraged them to join him and go native during the town's annual Seafaring Days celebrations. The event makes for lively crowds, colorful costumes—and a perfect cover for murder.

Troublemaker Willie Myners is found stabbed in his boat and the police's main suspect is Dylan himself. Michael and Molly can't help but be pulled into the mystery—and deeper into the dark history of Blackpool. Amid whispers of cursed sixteenth-century coins and gypsy gold, what they discover is something far more sinister than the revenge of a jealous husband. And much more dangerous.

Genres: Mystery, Fiction

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 2010

About the author

[Librarian Note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.]

Jordan Gray is a pseudonym of author Mel Odom.

Series:
* Blackpool Mystery

Reviews

[Harlequin Books]

Miniseries: Mystery Case Files

[Cindy · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was my car book. I only read it when I went to appointments ext so it was always disjointed to me. finally I sat and read the last 8 chapters and realized I really had not missed a thing!

[Maddy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I used this book as a purely lunch break read. The time it took me to finish the 250-pages says a lot about how much I enjoyed it I think. The premise was great and some of the characters were interesting, but it was just so dry for a murder mystery.

[Jay Neff · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought the book was intriguing, the characters in it had some great depth. I found it a little confusing at first, to what the plot was, but the further I got into it the better it got. As the story itself goes was good and I would definitely read it again. Some of the ways it was worded took me a bit to figure out what it meant, but overall the writing is very nice. I would recommend this book to people who like a good mystery. The amount of characters that just came in and out in the book I just could not remember who everyone was in the beginning. It’s a really good and well written story, but it is lacking some, not really backstory, but background to it all. I usually prefer to read historical fiction, but I don’t mind a good mystery once and awhile. I think when you read it a second time it would make more sense, only because of how jumbled up some of it is. It gives me that feeling that he wanted to just get so much information in such a small amount of space, which it is 246 pages of actual story, but leads me to say he was just cramming in so much in such little space. Overall 3 stars.

[Caroline · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun book! Second in the Blackpool mystery series with Molly and Michael Graham in Blackpool England (loosely related to the Mystery Case Files computer games). Easy read and interesting goings on in the town of Blackpool.

[Anita · Rating 4 out of 5]

another good book to the blackpool series. cant wait to read the next one

[Lynda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mystery in Blackpool. Molly and Michael set out to solve a murder in order to help a friend. Fun, short story.