Mainely Wicked
Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery #5
by Matt Cost
Langdon is hired to find a man who answered a classified ad and then disappeared into thin air. And then a second person vanishes. What starts as a couple of simple missing-person cases quickly spirals into a diabolical world of witches, wiccans, and wendigos.
“You ever hear of the Church of Satan?” Jewell asked. There was silence around the fire. The flames danced and flickered, casting shadows in the dark May night. Langdon took the bottle from Richam and poured himself another…
Bart, the dour but poetic cop, is back, even if demoted to a blue uniform. The dapper lawyer, Jimmy 4 by Four, is up to his regular philandering ways. Richam is hiding a secret from Jewell, and Chabal makes a new friend… And then goes missing.
What is going to happen during the Super Flower Blood Moon and who is the Wendigo? This time, Langdon might be too late to solve these mysteries before the blood flows…
5 out of 5 fairies
Goff and company are back, and this time there’s a hint of the supernatural around the mystery. Unfortunately, this time, things strike a little too close to home when Goff’s wife is swept up in the disappearances. While definitely off the beaten path for this series, I liked the new twist. (It’s important to remember that this is fiction, and the practices of the worshipers of the Wendigo do not reflect all pagans/witches/wiccans/satanists, just as fringe cults don’t reflect all of Christianity). I enjoyed following along with Goff as he races against the clock to find the missing people and save them from an uncertain fate at the hands of a madman. I highly recommend reading the earlier books first so you can get a better grasp of just how complex the characters are, but I don’t think you’d be entirely lost jumping in here. Another great mystery penned by Cost!
Matt Cost was a history major at Trinity College. He owned a mystery bookstore, a video store, and a gym, before serving a ten-year sentence as a junior high school teacher. In 2014 he was released and began writing. And that’s what he does. He writes histories and mysteries.
“Love in a Time of Hate” is the third historical by Cost. “Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War; At Every Hazard”, was published in 2015, in which Emmett Collins grows into manhood during the Civil War. “I am Cuba; Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution” was published in 2020. It was recently awarded the silver award for historical fiction from Kops-Fetherling.
Cost has also published the Mainely Mystery series including “Mainely Power” (the MHC Read ME fiction book of the year), “Mainely Fear”, and “Mainely Money”. The fourth book in the series, “Mainely Angst”, will be published in January of 2022.
He has begun the Clay Wolfe/Port Essex Trap series with “Wolfe Trap”. “Mind Trap” will be published in October of 2021 and “Mouse Trap” in the spring of 2022.
Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. A chocolate Lab and a basset hound round out the mix. He now spends his days at the computer, writing.
Other Works
I Am Cuba; Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution
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Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War: At Every Hazard
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Goff Langdon Mainely Mysteries
Mainely Power (#1)
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Mainely Fear (#2)
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Mainely Money (#3)
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Mainely Angst (#4)
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