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.