Review: A Ghostly Mystery
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2012
The protagonist of the story, 23 year old Tess Schafer, a natural medium, suddenly loses her newly married husband, Mike, who paid for his life after being hit by a drunken driver on his way to the store for something as nonsensical as sour cream for Tess.  During the following two years, Tess is angry at God, angry at her spirit guide, Sheila, and the world in general because she hadn't been warned prior to this coming disaster.  Her negative emotion of anger destroys her mediumship and finally she is convinced by a friend to take a vacation at an old house now renovated into an Inn on a lovely spot on the ocean in Maine.  And the crowning feature is that it is reputed to be haunted. Tess decides that getting away would be good for her and she drives up there.She learns that forty years prior a young teenage girl, over-protected by her father, jumped to her death from one of the turrets on the third floor after she learned that her young teen-age love had been dashed to his death when his boat crashed on the rocks.  Thus begins a story that entails hauntings, ghosts and a few mysteries; a new male in her life for Tess, which she resists out of loyalty to her deceased husband; an Hispanic Modesta who believes Tess is in league with the devil because she talks to ghosts; and new friends who run the Inn and may be pushed into bankruptcy because people may be afraid to stay there.The story flows continuously from one new paranormal experience to another and Tess continually explains how she, as a medium, views them, including the metaphysics that underlies them.  I have studied metaphysics and practiced them, although not as a direct medium, and not long into the story I realized the author knew what she was talking about.This story is a page turner, extremely interesting, entertaining and well written.  For everyone who likes a good fast moving mystery embedded with ghosts, this will certainly be your "cup of tea."  I loved it and heartily recommend it.