| General
contractor Mel Turner is asked by San Francisco millionaire
Andrew Stirling to rid his new Victorian house of ghosts who
are quite upset with the recent renovation of the Victorian
abode and are running off potential buyers. Andrew is told
by realtors that Mel has experience ridding homes of spectral
visitors. He reveals that Chantelle, a psychic, suggested
Andrew find the original architectural pieces that were removed
from the house to appease the ghosts. To learn more, Mel phones
and sets up a meeting with Chantelle, but when Mel arrives
at the psychic's home, Chantelle's brother is kneeling over
her dead body.
Thus starts the mystery of who killed the psychic, but this
fast-paced plot is no mere cozy. Mel faces danger as she tries
to locate the missing architectural elements, deal with a
rental her friend Luz asks her to "cleanse" and
find more than a few potential suspects who add depth to an
already excellent plot. Could the killer have been someone
who would gain millions from the sale of the house? Or was
Chantelle killed because she was into blackmail? Mel's family
members, Mel's friend Homicide Inspector Annette Crawford,
and Chantelle's brother, Professor Landon Demetrius III, all
add excellent dimensions to this intriguing and refreshing
plot.
Juliet Blackwell (pseudonym) is a New York Times bestselling
author who has experience renovating beautiful historic homes
throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She resides in a haunted
house in Oakland, California, so it's no wonder her series
is so engaging and realistic. Her descriptions of the San
Francisco area are spot on visual images, and her knowledge
of construction techniques brings an added depth. Give
up the Ghost is an outstanding mystery and exciting page-turner,
replete with angry ghosts and murderers, and one that held
me spellbound.
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