Month: July 2020

This is an enthralling British mystery that combines suspense, motherhood, an adorable dog, teaching, teenagers, police procedure, modern romance, witchcraft, a Victorian ghost story, a real spectral legend, stalking, train rides and murders.  Definitely in the ‘hard to put down’ category I hated to see this book end.  It is a multi-narrator mystery but it’s really Clare’s story, a divorced single mom in her early 40’s teaching English lit at the high school rocked by the murders.  The others are a mid-30’s Anglo-Indian woman, Harbinder, a tightly wound Police Inspector with a wry sensibility and Clare’s 15 year old daughter, Georgia, who is a normal teenager except for her active but secret interest in the paranormal.

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