JESSICA, LIZ, AND JAMES  ARE BACK IN A HAUNTING NEW MYSTERY OF DARK SECRETS AND SUPERNATURAL MENACE!

October 1947.  Though Jessica and Liz are as smart and sassy as ever and James is as quick witted,  they may be in over their heads when they join cast and crew of The Wellstone Mystery Hour on Birdsong Island to remote broadcast about a spectral lady at Carlyle Mansion.  The woman and one of the Carlyle brothers disappeared twenty years before, and her spirit has been reported to haunt the mansion ever since.  But that isn’t all with which the Minton gals and James Crawford must contend.  Chilling nightmares, the tortured guilt of the husband of the ghostly lady, an ill-starred romance between her daughter and one of Jessica’s colleagues, and secrets from James’s own past rising up to haunt him may be  more than their wit and courage can overcome.  Then there’s the Hound from Hell . . .

Dusty says, “Take a sneak peek at Shadows of a Dark Past – if you dare! It’s scarier than a room full  of vacuum cleaners!” 

Sneak Peek #1:  A Séance Gone Wrong

Book Club Discussion Questions, click here.

“Casting Shadows“ Here’s the first entry about the actors who inspire the book’s characters

“Casting Shadows Part 2”  Another entry on the actors who inspired the book’s characters

Keep checking back. Another sneak peek, fun blogs on the inspiration for the characters, and more will be posted over the next several weeks!

 Shadows is available in paperback on Amazon (Click here).

On Bookshop.org (click here)

Through Barnes and Noble (click here)

It is also available through Ingram Content Group.

You can  buy Shadows of a Dark Past from me at my appearances.  See Appearances and Events page here.  You can also purchase the book at Tatnuck Bookseller (Westborough)  at TidePool Books (Worcester), and Booklovers Gourmet (Webster).

I’ll be posting more bookstores that carry Shadows as I continue  to place it.  Stay tuned!

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