About this book:
“Life has never been busier for Dr. Harriet Bailey-Knight. Her veterinary practice is thriving, and she is still adjusting to her new role as a pastor's wife―an endeavor made more challenging by some parishioners' unrealistic expectations. Plus, she and her husband, Will, have been cast in the starring roles for an upcoming production of Pride and Prejudice.
An old acquaintance of Will's has moved to White Church Bay to reopen the Beacon-on-the-Moor Playhouse, a theater that closed under mysterious circumstances in the late 1980s. The undertaking is threatened by a series of unexplained incidents and the mysterious apparition of a man wearing a tall hat. While investigating the strange events, Harriet discovers that Pride and Prejudice was the last play to be performed before the original theater closed―and the actress who played Lydia Bennet disappeared without a trace!
Can Harriet solve a cold case and expose the modern-day culprit pretending to haunt the theater? Or is this the playhouse's final curtain call?”
Series: Book #17 in the “Mysteries of Cobble Hill Farm” series. Click on the numbers to be taken to the prior books’ reviews: Book #1, Book #2, Book #3, Book #4, Book #5, Book #6, Book #7, Book #8, Book #9, Book #10, Book #11, Book #12, Book #13, Book #14, Book #15, and Book #16!
Spiritual Content- 1 Peter 4:10 at the beginning; A few Scriptures are quoted, remembered, & thought over; Church going & a bit of a sermon; Prayers; Talks about God; ‘H’s are capital when referring to God; Harriet is pressured by a church member to help with the church’s upcoming event & the woman’s expectations for a pastor’s wife; Mentions of God, trusting in God, & having faith; Mentions of prayers, praying, thanking God, & blessings over food; Mentions of Bibles & those and events in the Bible; Mentions of churches, church going, pastors, sermons, services, & hymns; Mentions of blessings & being blessed; A mention of a Nativity play; A mention of a guardian angel; A mention of someone being reunited with his deceased parents in “Paradise”;
*Note: A usage of the phrase “She was still hesitant to leave the devil she knew for the devil she didn’t”; A quote from Hamlet (Shakespeare) after talking to his father’s spirit; One of the cast members of the play thinks she saw a ghost at the theatre & Harriet wants to find out the truth because she doesn’t believe in ghosts or haunted buildings (she firmly does not believe in either of those or curses, but thinks that of a place could be cursed, it would be the theatre; A side character says that perhaps the stories of haunted theaters are true or maybe they are not, but “it’s not for [her] to say”); *Spoilers about the ghost* Towards the end, Harriet discovers it was two mischievous teenaged boys who made the “ghost”; “Boys will be boys” is said & the theatre owner is not mad and comments about possibly hiring the boys to do it again since most theaters have a ghost; At the very end, Harriet sees the “ethereal” shadows of a couple and then laughs at the mischievous teenagers’ huge grins *End of Spoilers*; Mentions of ghosts, seeing ghosts, & haunted buildings; Mentions of folklore/myths including a “cat-sìth” from Celtic mythology (including a section on this creature in the bonus content at the end of the book with references to other mythical creatures); A couple mentions of luck; A mention of fate.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘stupid’; Some eye rolling; An explosion (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of deaths, an accident that could have been meant to kill someone, & grief; Mentions of crimes, possible crimes (including kidnapping, a missing person, or something sinister happening), criminals, stealing, vandalism, arrests, & jails/prisons; Mentions of an explosion & explosive; Mentions of threats & threatening notes; Mentions of accidents, injuries, concussions, pain, & passing out (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of lies, lying, & liars; Mentions of gossip & rumors; Mentions of injured and sick animals & Harriet’s veterinary clinic treatments (including vaccinations & their pain (including a dog being hit by a car and paralyzed and a cat rescued for a burning trash can (Harriet’s grandfather’s pets who she now has), cats and a deer being hit by cars, & another dog’s owner being concerned that his dog may pass away after a seizure, barely-above-not-detailed)); A few mentions of a car accident & deaths (of a teenager’s parents); A few mentions of people being hit by a car; A few mentions of a fire, the arsonist, & injuries (Book #11); A few mentions of a rumor about a woman being accosted by a couple men; A few mentions of jealousy; A couple mentions of World War II & Nazis; A couple mentions of possible gunfire; A couple mentions of a rare cat being shot, killed, and taken to a taxidermist (not fictional, called the Tomas Christie Kellas Cat); A mention of a military officer being killed overseas by an IED; A mention of fictional murders in a book series; A mention of smuggling illegal goods;
*Note: Quotes from Pride and Prejudice & Shakespeare; Many mentions of Jane Austen, ‘Pride and Prejudice’, fictional characters, & fictional events; Mentions of other fictional characters from books and plays (Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, & Lewis Carroll); Mentions of car brands; A mention of Wikipedia.
Sexual Content- A cheek kiss and three not-detailed kisses; A few touches, embraces, hand holding, & nearness/cuddling (barely-above-not-detailed); Mentions of dates, dating, & boyfriends/girlfriends; A few mentions of a broken engagement and a broken heart; A few mentions of blushes; A mention of a kiss; A mention of a crush; Very light love, being in love, & the emotions.
-Harriet Bailey-Knight
P.O.V. of Harriet
264 pages
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My personal Rating-
This was an interesting mystery! Albeit a little sad at times, it still kept my attention and I was curious what would happen next. I did figure out one of the mysteries quickly (the actress), but the other one’s ending didn’t make a lot of sense to me (the ghost). Overall, though, it was a fun book and I enjoyed seeing Harriet and Will work together to solve the mysteries. This one would have been great to read in the autumn!
This book particularly shares about some events from the prior books in the series, “Three Dog Knight” and “A Will and a Way”, so I do suggest reading this series in order!
See y’all on Friday with a new review!
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
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