This week, we are in Hong Kong with Selkie.
About: "When Selkie Moon travels to Hong Kong to discover his fate, she has high hopes of using her psychic twinges to find him and reunite him with his father. Until the tea leaves on her flight make a chilling prediction. Then in a Kowloon night-market she witnesses a child abduction – and the echoes with her quest suddenly raise the stakes. As the strange events escalate and reach back into Chinese folklore, Selkie is compelled to confront the powerful force that’s hell bent on stopping her. The omens are unmistakable. Someone is going to die.
Someone closest to her?
Or Selkie herself?"
My thoughts: Selkie travels with Alistair to Hong Kong to continue the search for his son who disappeared as a baby, with the baby's grandparents, after his wife died. He has been searching for 30 years and finally has some hope. He has found a cousin to his son, Su Yin, who says she has information that the baby was taken to Hong Kong, but seems more interested in the reward. Selkie finds some notes in the in flight magazine that seem to speak to her. When she sees a child abducted at the market in Kowloon, she is sure this is what happened to the baby many years ago. Selkie pulls in her psychic abilities, using the notes in the magazine, and hooks up with a medium for help. Su Yin appears, the medium disappears and things go from bad to worse. The grandparents are in the area but where are they? Are they helping or hindering the search? Something happens to Alistair. Is this the work of his deceased wife, Fleur, haunting Alistair? Clearly this is more that Selkie can handle on her own. She calls in the help of her friends, Derek and Nigel, and a medical doctor who specializes in Chinese medicine and folklore.
It is very fast paced and lots of suspense, with danger at every turn of the page. The story is immersed in Chinese and Japanese folklore but takes place in modern times. It is a very interesting how this tales are woven into the story.
What I have loved about this series, is they take the folklore of specific countries and add a supernatural twist. The folk lore is interesting. The twists are intriguing and suspenseful. The characters are quirky and fun.
If you like mysteries that take place in other countries, with a strong female character, and a bit of the supernatural, I recommend this series.
I hope you have enjoyed this look at The Secrets of Selkie Moon series.
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