HOME FOR THE HAUNTING, Juliet Blackwell's fourth in the
Haunted Home Renovation Series meets the high
standards set in the previous three. Mel Turner and her
group of friends and family are just as entertaining, the
mystery even more eerie than in books past, and the
resolution satisfying and logical, all one can ask of a cozy
mystery. Add in the ghosts and this has become one of my
favorite series.
In HOME FOR THE HAUNTING Mel is involved in heading up a
build/repair for a volunteer organization. The neighborhood
where she and her father's teams are centered provides some
interesting new faces to the book, while bringing favorites
from past books back in a different environment. As Mel's
confidence with her ghost-communication abilities grows, she
plunges more directly into what I consider the meat of the
book, using those abilities to shed light on a current
mystery as well as one that happened decades ago.
Juliet Blackwell always provides intriguing mysteries with
likable and unique characters. Whether it be this series, or
the Witchcraft Mystery series the added dimension of ghosts
or magic amps up the pleasure for me. Bottom line, though,
with or without the woo-woo, she crafts solid conundrums
that keep readers guessing until the final page.
Next up in the Haunted Home Renovation Series after
HOME FOR THE HAUNTING is Keeper of the Castle, due out in
December 2014.
San
Francisco contractor Mel Turner is leading a volunteer home
renovation project, and while she expects lots of questions
from her inexperienced crew, she can’t help asking a few of
her own—especially about the haunted house next door…the
place local kids call the Murder House.
But when volunteers discover a body while cleaning out a
shed, questions pile up faster than discarded lumber. Mel
notices signs of ghostly activity next door and she wonders:
Are the Murder House ghosts reaching out to her for help, or
has the house claimed another victim?
Now, surprised to find herself as the SFPD’s unofficial
“ghost consultant,” Mel must investigate murders both past
and present before a spooky killer finishes another job.
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