Smorgasbord Book Promotions – Book Review – #Murder Death at the Asylum: Rhe Brewster Mystery Series, Book 5 by N. A. Granger

Delighted to share my review for the latest release by N.A. Granger – Death at the Asylum: Rhe Brewster Mystery Series, Book 5

About the book

Attending the opening of a new commercial center, Rhe Brewster, an ER nurse and police investigator, and her husband Sam, chief of the Pequod police department, save the governor of Maine from a sniper attack. They are assigned to a task force to find the sniper, at the same time trying to identify the person who has stolen Rhe’s personal data and is using it to run up thousands of dollars in debt and even steal their home. Rhe treats a student from Pequod University raped following a night at a local bar and soon discovers there is a serial rapist on the loose.

The threats to Rhe and Sam escalate as a sociopath from Rhe’s past reemerges in a strange twist. Are any of these perpetrators linked?

Maine’s most tenacious sleuth is back, surrounded by the colorful characters who populate the coastal town of Pequod. In this fifth installment of the Rhe Brewster Mysteries, Rhe’s strength and determination are tested to their limits while she tries to protect her unborn child.

My review for the book June 6th 2023

What a great story, interesting characters and setting for this story. I love the family unit that the author has created with multi-tasking mother to be Rhe, her husband Sam who is Chief of Police and her son Jack from her previous marriage to Sam’s brother.

Although this is the fifth book in the series it easily stands alone with a brief overview to set the scene and I found it very easy to get into the flow of the book immediately. All the main characters and those in a supporting role form a strong cast of players as the drama unfolds.

Rhe and her family live in a close knit community and when a sniper takes aim at the Governor of Maine it hits hard for everyone. As well as being an ER nurse, Rhe works part-time in the police department a job that she loves and she assists with the investigation into the shooting and a dangerous rapist on the prowl. However, there is a more personal danger about to intrude into their peaceful life, a hangover from one of the previous books in the series.

As well as contending with the unsettling activities of their unknown enemy, Rhe also has to deal with her boss at the hospital who is out to get rid of her because of her stand against him, and a troubling series of drug thefts from the emergency room.

All these different threads come together in this fast paced thriller with many unexpected twists and some heart-stopping moments.

The ending leaves the door open for another in the series which I understand is in the works and I look forward to catching up with Rhe Brewster again sometime soon. Highly rcommended.

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About the Author

Noelle A. Granger grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in a rambling, 125-year-old house with a view of the sea. Summers were spent sailing and swimming. She was also one of the first tour guides at Plimoth Plantation. Granger graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a bachelor’s degree in Zoology and from Case Western Reserve University with a Ph.D. in anatomy. Following a career of research in developmental biology and teaching human anatomy to medical students and residents, the last 28 years of which were spent at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, she decided to try her hand at writing fiction. The Rhe Brewster Mystery Series was born.

The series features Rhe Brewster, an emergency room nurse, as the protagonist. Rhe lives in the fictional coastal town of Pequod, Maine, (similar to Plymouth) and Granger uses her knowledge of such a small town, her experiences sailing along the Maine coast, and her medical background to enrich each book in the series. In the first book, Death in a Red Canvas Chair, the discovery of a wet, decaying body of a young woman, sitting in a red canvas chair at the far end of a soccer field, leads Rhe on a trail that heads to a high-end brothel and a dodgy mortuary operation.

The second novel in the Rhe Brewster Mystery Series, Death in a Dacron Sail, was released in 2015, and finds Rhe responding to a discovery by one of the local lobstermen: a finger caught in one of his traps. The third book, Death By Pumpkin, begins with the sighting of the remains of a man’s body in a car smashed by a giant pumpkin at the Pequod Pumpkin Festival. Up next? Death in a Mud Flat.

In addition to the Rhe Brewster Mystery Series, Granger has had short stories, both fiction and non-fiction, published in Deep South Magazine, Sea Level Magazine, the Bella Online Literary Review, and Coastal Style Magazine, and has been featured in Chapel Hill Magazine, The News & Observer, The Boothbay Register, and other local press. Granger lives with her husband, a cat who blogs, and a hyperactive dog in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She spends a portion of every summer in Maine.