I am, and have been since discovering Agatha Christie in grade 9 English, a mystery reader. I also love stories of magic that happen to regular people in the kinds of places I can recognize. A new story by Indigenous author, Darcie Little Badger, combines these two. Ellie, the main character, lives in a world like our own, but shaped by magic, myth, and monsters that are real. Alongside everyday activities like going to school and hanging out with friends, she can raise the ghosts of dead animals. And this skill is what she will need when her cousin dies in a car ‘accident’, but that she knows was actually murder. Many of those around her don’t want to hear this and they certainly don’t want anyone poking around in the ‘accident’.
Combine magic and a murder to be solved and it’s my perfect story.
Genre: Fantasy
Published 2020