Jordan Marsh has begun her new life in Port Chatham, a
picturesque town in the Pacific Northwest, or at least she
THINKS she has. From the day she arrives at her new home,
an historic old house that she means to restore, odd things
begin to happen. Beginning with the strange dog that seems
to be waiting for her at her front door to the 2 women
dressed in period clothing appearing in her foyer, she is
wondering if she will ever get anything done.
Armed with a plan for her new life, she is more than a bit
distracted by Jase, her handsome neighbor and local club
owner. When it becomes clear that she can see and talk to
ghosts, she is convinced she is losing her mind. However,
things take an even stranger turn when one of those ghosts
insists that Jordan must solve a murder that happened over
a century in the past.
Now, Jordan is just as concerned as the next person about
clearing someone's good name, but she really does not see
how she can possibly help in this situation. Besides, she
does not believe in ghosts so how can she even entertain
the thought that she is seeing and talking to them? And
what on earth is wrong with the people in this town that
they find it perfectly NORMAL that she is in contact with
ghosts? They are even JEALOUS that she can see and speak to
them and they cannot.
The dog seems to have adopted her fully and she has no
choice but to accept him as her new pet. Of course, he
really IS a nice dog, though, and she kind of likes him
already. But they do need to agree on a name for him.
Yes, Jordan, has a new home, odd though it may be, and she
is even warming up a bit to the ghosts. However, she does
not see how she can help solve anyone's murder. You see,
she has this little problem of her own. She is the prime
suspect in her own husband's murder.....
This book was SUCH a delight to read! It has a bit of
everything. I actually laughed out loud in several parts of
the book as there is a great deal of humor interwoven with
the underlying mystery. It was a very pleasant book to get
lost in and I will be looking forward to reading more of
this author's books.
My only complaint was that there were a few things that did
not get explained by the end and it seemed as if they
should have been. All in all, though, that was a very small
thing in comparison to the overall pleasure that I gained
from spending time with this book.
RITA-nominated author P. J. Alderman weaves present-day
supernatural sleuthery with nineteenth-century intrigue in
the first book of an enchanting new mystery series set in
picturesque Port Chatham, Washington.
Jordan Marsh
left L.A. for the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Port
Chatham in pursuit of some much-needed R & R. As the prime
suspect in her cheating husband’s murder, she had been
hoping to immerse herself in the restoration of the
charming Victorian she’d just bought—and put all talk of
homicide investigations behind her. But as she soon
discovers, the coldest of cases cry out to be solved, too.
For this old house comes fully furnished—with two
garrulous ghosts who have a century-old murder of their own
they’d like her to look into. Now, if Jordan can keep the
L.A. police at bay, and sort through a suspect list of shady
characters circa 1890, she might just clear a wrongly
accused man’s name—and her own.
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