THE SÉANCE GARDEN by Juliet Blackwell
5 STARS! ABOUT THE BOOK: After an amateur ghost tour in one of California’s oldest towns stumbles upon an actual haunting, a skeptical historian of the occult becomes entangled in a murder case on the grounds. When Professor Harper Grae loses a bet with a friend, she finds herself on a nighttime tour of “haunted” locations in Monterey, California. Harper’s a lifelong nonbeliever of the occult, though her academic career is devoted to the historical and societal significance of witchcraft, ghosts, and poisons of all sorts. But her skepticism is immediately tested when the tour stumbles upon the body of renowned artist Delilah Mason—who’s found murdered on the grounds of a two-hundred-year-old mansion. On the night Mason is discovered, Harper catches sight of something in the house that she can’t shake, something that’s impossible to explain, at least not rationally. Soon the investigation reveals that this is the second time a woman has been found...
