The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick

March 23, 2026

I was wrong about The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by Josephine Leslie who wrote under R.A. Dick. I hadn’t read the book, although I was a big fan of the TV series with Edward Mulhare and Hope Lange who won an Emmy Award for her role. I own the movie, so I need to watch...

Tryst by Elswyth Thane

March 15, 2026

I have a fondness for paranormal romance-like mysteries. I say romance-like, because, despite the overall feeling, there’s no physical romance. The man in these books is dead, a ghost. Despite the attraction, there’s nothing to be done about it....

The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

October 15, 2023

In one weekend, I read two Christmas novellas that quoted Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Perhaps it’s appropriate that stories of people haunted by the past would quote from that story. It isn’t until part 2 of Peter Swanson’s The Christmas Guest...

The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn by Amber A. Logan

November 16, 2022

I’m going to admit right up front that I read Amber Logan’s The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn because she was on a panel I moderated. And, I probably would have gotten more out of the novel if I had read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I know I...

The Unquiet Grave by Sharyn McCrumb

September 13, 2017

Sharyn McCrumb returns to familiar territory, Appalachia, in The Unquiet Grave, a novel based on an actual trial. Set in West Virginia, in the late 19th century, the story of the Greenbriar Ghost was enough to convict a man of murder. In 1930, James Gardner is a...