Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 9/2/2022 + 1221 more book reviews

This was a fun ghost story from Webb that kept me interested and turning the pages. It's told from the point of view of Julia, who is at wit's end after her husband kills himself and is found to be a con man ala Bernie Madoff and has cheated most of their friends out of their life savings. Then a stranger named Adrian Sinclair appears at her door and offers her a new life taking care of his mother, Amaris, who is also a famous author who Julia thought dead. But instead she has merely vanished from fame and Adrian promises he can do the same for Julia. Since all of her friends have abandoned her and may be coming after her with lawsuits, Julia agrees to go with Adrian to Havenwood, the Sinclair's magnificent estate in the wilderness near Lake Superior. The estate was built by a rich fur trader named Andrew McCullough centuries earlier and contains many secrets that haunt its vast halls. As soon as Julia arrives, she starts to hear whisperings and sees visions of spirits that seem to come out of some of the paintings on the walls. So is Julia hallucinating or are spirits haunting the estate? She is off her depression medication and hallucinations may be a result. But why has she really been brought to Havenwood? And how is Seraphina, a psychic who conducted a very dangerous seance years before, a big part of the mystery? As the novel progresses, there are many twists to the story and all is definitely not what it seems.

I enjoyed this one quite a lot. A good novel to read in the fall close to Halloween. I have read one other book by Webb, THE TALE OF HALCYON CRANE, which I thought was also a good ghost story. I have a few of her other books on my TBR stacks that I'll be reading sometime soon.

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