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An Aura of Mystery by Joy Ellis — An AudioBook Review
Pulled from a dusty shoe box 20 years after being penned, the Best-Selling author publishes an early draft that hits
It’s a normal day in Surrey Village; the weather, typical for the UK, is grey with drizzle. Ellie McEwan closes her flower shop and sets off on her drive home when a drugged-out young man sprints into traffic. The last thing Ellie sees is her car impacting the young man, sending him into the clouds and her into the ditch. Days later, when she awakens in a hospital bed, the world is filled with colours, and her life will never be the same again.
In the same quiet English town, another drama unfolds. Women are dying, gruesomely murdered by a killer with a particular modus operandi. The victims are a musician, a doctor and an artist. The police have a serial killer on their hands, few clues, and no suspects.
Those are the separate storylines in Joy Ellis’s An Aura of Mystery.
While over 3.4 million copies of Ellis’s novels have been read, and the author has 10 International Best-Sellers to her name, I had yet to know of her or her work; however, the novel’s story and how it came into circulation captured my…
