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The Stone, the Cipher, and the Shadows

John Bellairs's Johnny Dixon in a Mystery

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The Stone, the Cipher, and the Shadows

By: Brad Strickland
Narrated by: Johnny Heller
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A flu epidemic ushers in a plague of dark magic in this spooktastic mystery featuring teenage sleuth Johnny Dixon from The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost.

Though forty miles away, Duston Heights is not safe from the flu that’s raging through Boston. When Johnny Dixon’s grandmother falls ill, he’s sent to live with his neighbor to avoid infection. So many locals are getting sick that school is canceled for a week, and the reclusive Dr. Abram Ashburn comes out of retirement to make house calls.

After seeing a scary vision of his bedridden grandmother outside of a window, Johnny starts to feel on edge. Then he and his best friend find what looks to be a weird map of a cemetery in Dr. Ashburn’s house. One specific grave is marked with an “X,” the burial place of a woman who practiced witchcraft in the seventeenth century.

The townspeople recover from the flu, but they can’t escape the terrifying illusions and shadow people that now haunt them, unless Johnny and his friends find the key to unlock the secrets of the graveyard before a dreadful prophecy comes to pass …

©2022 Brad Strickland and the Estate of John Bellairs (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing Fantasy Fiction Mysteries & Detectives Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Paranormal Science Fiction & Fantasy Thrillers & Suspense Exciting Haunted Magic Detective Witchcraft Scary Boston
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It started a little slow but is still worthwhile. True to John Bellairs characters and story telling. Would consider hearing more from this author.

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The story dragged and was not the best John Belarus/John Strickland story I’ve read

Reading was well done story not the best

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