A Secret Staircase by Eryn Scott [Review]

A Secret Staircase (A Murder at the Morrisey #2) by Eryn Scott
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: June 14, 2024

A Murder at the Morrisey
1. A Body in 3B
2. A Secret Staircase - Paperback | Kindle
3. A Poisoned Package
4. A Crime in 5C
5. A Bullet in the Basement

Eryn Scott
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Meg Dawson and the rest of the Morrisey residents can’t handle any more surprises in their beloved downtown Seattle apartment building. So, when Meg finds a secret staircase leading down to the famous Seattle Underground, she’s tempted to turn back. The area was supposed to be closed off long ago. But turning back isn’t so easy when she stumbles on not one, but two bodies in the hidden space. And even though the two deaths are separated by a century, the victims have more in common than Meg first realizes.

Meg must sort through the Underground’s storied past to find the truth about who or what took the two lives if she has any hope of stopping it from happening once more. This time, the next body might not take a hundred years to show up.

Thoughts on A Secret Staircase: Meg and the residents at the Morrisey are still dealing with the aftermath of their issue in 3B when Meg stumbles over a hidden staircase and a couple of bodies. On the up side, one of the bodies had been in the Underground for a long time. But the other? Not so much. The fact that there might be a link between the two? That's the bothersome part.

But Meg and her gift of gab with the ghosties gives her a leg up on the police investigation. After all, if there are secrets to be found, the resident ghosts are very good about ferreting said secrets out.

The downside to this investigation (besides the fact that, you know, there were two bodies under their building) is that Meg's ghostly BFF is a wee bit glum about meeting and then losing the love of her afterlife and Laurie is out of the country. That said, Ripley has a distraction in the form of Addy, a flapper party-girl ghost who knows a lot about the goings on around the Morrisey during the Prohibition era. And Laurie? Well, he's dropping in with video calls and some sweet, subtle flirting.

A dead body or two, some cagey ghosts, a feud that goes back generations, a potential new friend, a speakeasy, old secrets, and a lady who's trying to put it all together!