Dead Before Dying: 1 (Shadow Valley Manor)

Sidelined by an on the job injury veteran paranormal investigator Maureen Keslyn reluctantly accepts an assignment at Shadow Valley Manor an upscale retirement facility where someone--or something--is picking off residents and staff at a grisly clip. With her resources dwindling one death at a time and unnatural forces on the loose Maureens experience fighting the supernatural provides her only hope to destroy a clever and powerful evil before everybody in the manor--and the town--winds up dead. Together with a ragtag team that includes the local sheriff the undertakers daughter and the facility cook whose knife skills in the kitchen could prove deadly out of it--Maureen is on a mission to bring rest to the weary and peace to the dead...Paranormal thrills a feisty middle-aged heroine and a tantalizing mystery set in a creepy rest home . . . Clever fast-paced and fun. --Lisa Alber author of Kilmoon and Whispers in the Mist.