A treasure hunt through Boston for the fortune of a deceased
billionaire inspires a quirky researcher to join forces with a cast of lovable
misfits.
Tuesday Mooney is a single, 30-something loner--a dedicated
prospect researcher for Boston General Hospital. There she gathers facts and
tracks "digital fingerprints" on rich people in the hope that they
will donate their fortunes. Tuesday volunteers to help at a benefit auction and
invites along her former coworker and friend Poindexter "Dex"
Howard--a financier suffering romantic woes with his younger beau. Both friends
get swept up in a night of surprises, including meeting Vincent A. Pryce (an
eccentric, cape-wearing, elderly billionaire and collector of Edgar Allan Poe
memorabilia) and handsome Nathaniel Arches, an eligible, however notorious,
bachelor. Tuesday is drawn to Nathaniel, especially after he makes a whopping
$50,000 bid for a meet-and-greet with New Kids, a pop band.
When Vincent Pryce drops dead of an aneurysm at the auction, his
obituary launches a treasure hunt through the city of Boston. Whoever can read
between the lines of the obit and pursue the cryptic clues set forth will
inherit a portion of his wealth. Tuesday--an inquisitive, "human
Google"--charges headlong into the quest. But she's not alone: Dex,
Nathaniel, Dorothea "Dorry" Bones (Tuesday's precocious 14-year-old,
motherless neighbor), a lingering ghost from a sad chapter in Tuesday's
adolescence, and a host of competing--often dark, duplicitous--forces are
hell-bent on getting to the finish line first.
Kate Racculia (Bellweather Rhapsody) displays an
abundance of intellect and imagination in this clever, immensely adventurous
story that pays homage to the elaborate mysteries of life and death--and
self-discovery.
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts: A Novel by Kate Racculia
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26.00 Hardcover, 9780358023937, 368 pages
Publication Date: October 8, 2019
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