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03 February 2012

DEAD BOLT: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery - Juliet Blackwell


From the back of the book: There's no room at the inn when it's full of ghosts...


General contractor Melanie Turner's latest restoration is a historic Queen Anne Victorian in San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood. Trouble is, she'll have to work around the owners, the Daley family, who refuse to leave during the construction. But when eerie things start happening around the site, the Daleys threaten to call off the renovation for fear that the work is disrupting ghosts who live on the property.


But the ghosts aren't the only ones getting in the way of the renovation. The Daleys' neighbors aren't thrilled by the muss and fuss of the construction project. When Mel's father finds a dead body near the job site, Mel must add one more task to her growing to-do list. She has to finish the job, bring the house back from the brink, and complete her greatest renovation project yet: restoring her reputation....

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Such a fun series with great characters and super ghostly goin's on. These are scary spectres roaming in the Victorian Mel is renovating. I like how atmospheric the ghost scenes read. I find myself wrinkling my nose at the 'smells' or the cringing at the sounds as I read a passage.

There's more than just ghosts, too. I like a book with more than one mystery to solve and this has a couple or more. A murder and missing people, so Mel has her hands full. All that and she has her company to run and her people to keep renovating. And the ghosts to move along.....


Five moving ghosts beans.....

3 comments:

Mary (Bookfan) said...

Cute cover too! Sounds like a fun series.

Vickie said...

Mary: It's a really good series.

Aurian said...

You keep reminding me of series on my wishlist! Happy you love this series as well.