Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murder at Gulls Nest | 2025 | Jess Kidd | Buy |
| 2 | Murder at the Spirit Lounge | 2026 | Jess Kidd | Buy |
Murder at Gulls Nest opens the series with Nora Breen arriving at a charming but troubled hotel after her former novice’s letters stop abruptly. Nora has recently left her religious order and is still finding her footing in the outside world when a string of bizarre deaths begins rattling the guests at Gulls Nest. Her habit of quiet observation, developed over years in the convent, turns out to be exactly the right tool for cutting through everyone else’s noise.
Murder at the Spirit Lounge brings a famous medium named Dolores Chimes to Gore-on-Sea, and the local detective is not the only one drawn in by her promises of messages from beyond. When a seance goes badly wrong and the six sitters begin dying in strange circumstances, Nora finds herself hunting a killer who may or may not be entirely of this world. Jess Kidd keeps the series warm and funny without blunting the genuine menace underneath.