Brenda H. (booksinvt) - , reviewed on 11/15/2016 + 465 more book reviews

Deader Homes and Gardens is the fourth installment in the Southern Ghost Hunters Mystery series featuring Verity Long and her ghostly gangster sidekick Frankie. Verity has put aside her job as a graphic designer and has her sights set on ghost hunting.

Verity is hired by Lee Treadwell to come and investigate the ghosts living in his ancestral home, Rock Fall. The mansion has been boarded up since Lee's grandparents, uncle and a governess died in the home within a short period of each other and under threatening circumstances, but Lee is anxious to fix the house up and in order to do so must get inside to see if there is anything of value to sell. Rumor has it that Lee's grandfather brought back Egyptian artifacts from an archaeological dig that caused the family to be cursed.

Frankie goes along for the first visit to the mansion, but is immediately creeped out by the home, the ghosts and the dolls. So, he begs off accompanying Verity on any more trips instead lending her his powers so that she can try to help the ghosts on her own. Fortunately, Verity has Ellis Wyndell her boyfriend and brother of her ex fiancée to tag along and help her fend off the evil spirits.

A great addition to the series, although Frankie doesn't spend too much time with Verity. He is busy entertaining his gangster, bootlegging, rabble rousing friends on the back porch. It always brings a smile to think of Lucy, Verity's pet skunk and it is nice to see a relationship developing between Verity and Ellis. This one was a little scarier than the previous books.

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