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Cottage on Gooseberry Bay: Halloween Moon by [Kathi Daley]

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USA Today Bestselling author Kathi Daley brings you a heartwarming mystery series about finding answers and fostering hope while building friendships and embracing the magic of life by the sea and small town holidays.

Ainsley Holloway had come to Gooseberry Bay to find answers about her past. She’d come to find an explanation for the dreams that haunted her after the death of the cop who’d both rescued and raised her. And she’d come to identify the family she couldn’t remember but knew in her heart she’d once belonged to.

Ainsley hoped that by finding these answers, she’d also find healing. She hoped that once she’d resurrected the memories buried deep in her mind, she’d find peace.

The Cottage at Gooseberry Bay is a series about, not only finding answers, but finding hope.
It’s a series about family and friendship.
It’s a series about shared holidays, festivals, and celebrations.
It’s a series about shared heartbreak and hardship.
And it’s a series about the bond that can be forged amongst strangers when tragedy binds two or more individuals with a common goal.

In book 1 in the series, Ainsley arrives in Gooseberry Bay only to find there will be no easy answers as she’d so naively hoped. Unwilling to leave before she gets what she came for, she rents a cottage on the sea where she and her dogs, Kai and Kallie, can settle in and wait.

Her first night in town she meets a young woman who is later found dead. The local sheriff has labeled the death of this young woman a suicide based on a text message she’d sent before she died. But Ainsley, who’d spoken to the victim only hours before the text was sent, isn’t quite as sure of the easy answer the sheriff would like everyone to believe.
An investigative journalist by trade and cops daughter by upbringing, Ainsley never had been the sort to walk away from unanswered questions, so with the help of new friends she meets along the way, she initiates a parallel investigation which seems to indicate the sheriff’s real motivation in trying to sell the suicide angle to the community is to protect the interests of a very rich and very powerful man.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08BQMLKJK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kathi Daley Books (September 8, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 8, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1934 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 157 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B08X65PLHX
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #14,710 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #98 in Mystery
- #181 in Cozy Animal Mystery
- #232 in Holiday Romance (Books)

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Kathi Daley

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USA Today Bestselling Author Kathi Daley lives in the beautiful alpine community of Lake Tahoe with her husband Ken. When she's not writing she enjoys hanging out on the beach with her children and grandchildren. During the summer she enjoys hiking, kayaking, mountain biking, wakeboarding, and sunset cruises on the lake. During the winter she enjoys cross country skiing, snowshoeing, and curling up by a fire with a good book.

Kathi uses her mountain home as inspiration for her books, all which include appearances by the wildlife she shares her life with.

For weekly updates and contests sign up for her newsletter The Daley Weekly at (http://eepurl.com/NRPDf)or by accessing the link on her Facebook page or website.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2020

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Halloween Moon is the first book in Kathi Daley’s Cottage on Gooseberry Bay series. The author is very talented in descriptive writing, and I felt like I was right in the midst of the activities taking place and sharing the characters’ tragedies and joys. The affable characters are well developed, and the well-plotted storyline flows smoothly. This is a fun and clean read, with a strong emphasis on family, friends, caring, and compassion. The complex mysteries encompass the main character’s past and a current murder, and the red herrings and the twists and turns will keep readers engaged and guessing.

Welcome to Gooseberry Bay, Washington, a charming community where an old photograph and dreams have brought Ainsley Holloway in her search for the truth about her past. After the death of her adoptive father, Ainsley and her two Bernese Mountain Dogs, Kai and Kallie, travel across the country from Georgia to Washington. The photograph, which she found along with her father’s diary, features a house with a woman and two young children. Ainsley, who is immediately drawn to the house and people in the photograph, believes the house is located in Gooseberry Bay, and that she is somehow connected to the people, hopes to learn their identities. When she first arrives in town, she meets Hope Masterson, the owner of the Rosewood Inn, who doesn’t have any vacancies but agrees to rent her one of five cottages she recently inherited, on a monthly basis. While picking up takeout at the local bar and grill, Ainsley, a friendly and outgoing young woman whose work history includes working as a journalist and as a private investigator, meets the occupants of the other cottages, who welcome her with open arms and friendships quickly develop. She’s even invited to join them for brunch the following day. When the final guest arrives at the brunch, Ainsley learns that Cammy Collins, the sweet, enthusiastic clerk she met at the general store the previous evening, is dead. The sheriff’s office is treating the death as a suicide, but her new friends disagree, and even though she only briefly talked to Cammy, Ainsley doesn’t think that cause of death is plausible. Ainsley joins forces with her new friends, Tegan, Jemma, Josie, Booker, Cooper, and Parker, to try to uncover the truth about Cammy’s death.

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Entertaining New Series

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2020

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Spoiler Free Review:
This is the first of a new series and was introduced in her Inn At Holiday Bay Series. This is about a young woman searching for her identity.
So lets start off with the fact that Kathi is a talented storyteller. Her books are clean reads and are well edited and well plotted. This is a finite series intended to be a trilogy. In it Kathi brings together an interesting group of characters in a pacific northwest location. The main overarching plot of the book is the main character Ainsleys search for her true identity. Each book will have a mystery for that book that will be complete in that volume. Not quite a Cozy and not quite a thriller but an entertaining read no matter how you classify it.

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Fast paced, full of friendship, obstacles & opportunities

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2020

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Kathi Daley has done it again! In this new series she has created characers we want to know better and are cheering for from the beginning. Ainsley Holloway is a young woman we met when she stayed as a guest with Abby and Georgia at The Inn At Holiday Bay. (One of my favorite series - check it out!) Her quest to find out more about her hidden past is making her new (and interesting) friends along the way.
Having been an investigative journalist before joining her now deceased adoptive father working as a private investigator, Ainsley's curiosity is one of her most determined characteristics. Being the daughter of a cop makes her just as determined to find truth.
The truth she is seeking, at the beginning, is how she came to be in the dangerous place where her father rescued her. She wants to know if she has any biological family in the world. WHY is a certain photograph suddenly bringing up memories or dreams she has no conscious record of?
This series is fast paced, full of friendship, obstacles and opportunities. An excellent start to what I hope is a long running series.

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Kathleen C.

Halloween Moon earns 5/5 Mysterious Photos...Totally Engaging!

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2020

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Gooseberry Bay is festooned with Halloween flair. Ainsley Holloway is eager to get started exploring the history behind the house on the cliff she luckily can view from the cottage she was lucky to rent. She learns the small town’s grapevine is faster than the internet when many residents and neighbors are already aware she’s rented one of the cottages out on the peninsula. At the market she meets the lovely Cammy Collins and witnesses an interaction that leaves the young woman distraught and oddly closing the market early. It is shocking that the next day Ainsley learns that Cammy’s body has been found at the bottom of Bramblewood Bluff. Nothing bonds a new group of acquaintances more than a murder investigation, and Ainsley’s investigator/reporter’s intuition will come in handy. It’s going to “take a village” to uncover the truth.

“Between Parker’s nose for news, my experience as a PI, Jemma’s hacker skills, and Josie’s ability to charm anyone she set her mind to, the four of us really did make a pretty awesome team.”
—Ainsley Holloway, Halloween Moon

A Hit! Kathi Daley has penned a clever start to a new trilogy introducing an intriguing mystery, endearing strong lead, delightful supporting characters, and a couple of extraordinary four-legged friends. Kathi follows her signature style with a small town setting, near the sea of course, a close knit group of residents with whom the lead easily becomes friends, and a mystery or two that has led the main character on a personal journey of self-discovery. The group all have realistic skills and curiosity levels to weed through the evidence gathered outright or with a bit of trickery. Some of the investigation occurs off the page, typical of Daley’s work, but the team gathers together often for updates, theorizing, and planning next moves. The conclusion of book one has some satisfying closure, and personal revelations are hinted (Wow, do I have a theory!), but answers not yet complete...hence a book two and book three [insert giggle]. I personally enjoy the first-person narrative providing me a vicarious way to be part of the story with the “I” perspective along with descriptive language creating a delightful setting, appearances, and tone, and dialogue does well to illustrate emotions and personalities. Engaging...another mystery is hinted to at the end!

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How many characters do you need to solve a murder? Plenty, just not the protagonist!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 31, 2020

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Characters: Ainsley is alright. She takes good care of her dogs and cares about other animals as well (she saves a kitten at some point while on a run in the wilderness). While she seems a tad smarter than quite a few protagonists I’ve seen in cosy mysteries lately, she’s not very proactive. A good deal of the investigation is done by her neighbours and they might have cracked this case without her. While looking into the house she believes she knows from her dreams and past she looks at pictures of the brothers currently living there and goes “I felt immediately drawn to Adam”. UGH. Not this insta rubbish again. A little while later she meets a guy in a hardware store and is instantly attracted to him. For a second I was like, “thank goodness, whoever this Mike is, thanks for appearing”. Her thought while being hot for him “I will only be here for a couple of months, there is no point starting anything”. And I was like “girl, nobody was propositioning you, neither for just sex let alone a relationship, calm down”. Never fear though, “Mike” turns out to be Adam. Why would a rich businessman work at the counter of the local hardware store? Who knows. Why did she not recognise him? Who knows.

The book, via another character, tells us “Ainsley is an experienced PI, who used to be a reporter, so I’m sure she has a few tricks up her sleeve.” None of which she showed us, bar crying at the sheriff’s office. All the interviewing and hacking etc. is done by others.

Not much to say for the other characters. Except that there are too many for me to remember them all. And plenty of them start with the same letter, e. g. Josie and Jemma are her neighbours, witnesses/persons of interest in Cammy’s murder are Heather, Harper and Hillary. And if I don’t have a good grasp on who this character is, this is confusing as heck.

World: Gooseberry Bay sounds quaint and kinda nice. Rich jerk that has the sheriff in his pocket aside. A tad confused about the size though. She says it’s a small town, but their park has an area for volleyball, with eight nets. That is a lot of volleyball fields for a small town?

Writing: Nothing too bad, noticed a few things that could have been better though. Ainsley repeats info a couple of times. First as internal thought, then in various explanations to other characters.
I remember one typo, just for the hilarity of it. “woofed down her food like a stray dog. I guessed she was hungry.” Woofing food is new. Plus redundancy of the whole second sentence.

Overall it felt like you spent half the book watching Ainsley and her dogs settle in and get to know her neighbours etc. instead of solving a case or the mystery of Ainsley’s past.

If I ever find myself with too much time at my hands, I might pick up the next one, but for now I’m good, knowing Ainsley will ponder whether she should date Adam (regardless of whether he showed any interest or not) while very slowing trying to uncover more of her past. I imagine Patty, Josie and Jemma will carry the brunt of the investigation in the following books as well.

Kindle Customerverythe story was good and kept you guessing to the end

Good story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2021

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A good ,lighthearted story I liked the character I like books like this without any sex or violence or drugs

Anna C.

ZA good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2020

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Looking forward to more of the same

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Who am I?

Reviewed in Canada on October 20, 2021

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Ainsley has just moved to the west coast near Seattle. She’s on a quest to find out who her original family are. A house with a woman and two children in front of it has intrigued Ainsley since she’d found it, after her father had died. Who was this family? Were they related to her? Why did her father have the picture? A great beginning to this West Coast series.

Trudi

A good beginning to a new series

Reviewed in Canada on September 19, 2020

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I really enjoyed this book and look forward to the next one. I found the last thirty pages to be somewhat rushed and it ended in a hurry. I was hoping for more on Ainsley’s quest for her past but I guess that will come in the next book. An enjoyable read!

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