Spirit and Dust
We first met the Goodnight family in Texas Gothic (2011), wherein college freshman Amy (Amaryllis) used her powers of seeing ghosts to solve mysteries. Now we travel from Texas to Minnesota with Amy’s cousin Daisy, who shares her cousin’s gift and has been recruited by the FBI to help solve a brutal murder and kidnapping. The Scooby-Doo mystery flavor of the first title continues, with Cleopatra’s feisty spirit acting up in a museum chase scene, and fashion details and romantic clinches everywhere. Clement-Moore delivers some lovely comic zingers in a romance that manages to lightly poke fun at the genre it solidly inhabits. Grades 9-12. --Debbie Carton