The Burnt Island Burial Ground: A Reverend Lindsay Harding Mystery - Paperback

by Mindy Quigley (Author)

"We hid the body. The money belonged to everyone, but we stole it for ourselves. You have to help me give it back before it's too late. If I don't stop this, that money's gonna drag us all straight down to hell." With these words, whispered to hospital chaplain Lindsay Harding as part of a cryptic confession, the stage is set for another intricately-plotted Mount Moriah mystery. All signs point to murder, but no one can find any trace of a body. Lindsay's sure not all is as it seems, but she'll need true grit and quick wit to follow a trail back through history to Burnt Island, a remote patch of North Carolina swampland. Lindsay's task is complicated by the shifting landscape of her personal life. After pre-wedding jitters jeopardize a relationship that seemed destined to be her best shot at happily-ever-after, Lindsay falls under the spell of a charming stranger. Whether she gets another chance at love will depend on following her heart...and on whether she can keep that heart beating long enough to unlock the mystery of Burnt Island.

Author Biography

Historian by training, globe-trotting university project manager by necessity, and fiction writer by the skin of her teeth, Mindy Quigley has had a colorful career. She has won a number of awards for her short stories, including the 2013 Bloody Scotland prize. Her non-fiction writing includes an academic article co-authored with the researcher who created Dolly the Sheep. More recently, she was project manager of the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, a research clinic founded in Scotland by the author J.K. Rowling. Her work as the coordinator of a pastoral services program at the Duke University Medical Center provided the inspiration for her bestselling Reverend Lindsay Harding mystery series. She lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, with her Civil War history professor husband, their daughter, and their miniature Schnauzer.