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Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to recieve an ARC of the mystery/paranormal novel The Night Vanishing (Painter Mann #2) by Dick Wybrow through Netgalley. I read it shortly afterwards and today I'll post my review.

Description from Goodreads
After the events of The InBetween, dead private investigator Painter Mann goes to New Orleans to find clues about the identity of his murderer.

Instead, he becomes embroiled (you gotta watch out for getting embroiled, it can sneak up on you) in case involving two-headed monsters, voodoo witches and hundreds of missing ghosts.

He's also being "hunted" by the Ghost Wranglers, a popular cable TV show determined to find the ghost PI known as Painter Mann.

My Thoughts on the Book This was such a fun read. The plot and story was intiguing and the world building is well made. I also enjoyed Painter's integrity and sarcasm.

Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to recieve an ARC of the cosy mystery This Magick Marmot by Sharon Pape through Netgalley. I read it shortly afterwards and today I'll post my review.

Description from Goodreads
A fatal case of school spirit . . .

Kailyn Wilde, owner of the Abracadabra potion shop, feels some dread anticipating her ten-year high school reunion at the new hotel in New Camel-but it turns out even worse than she feared. Running into her very first boyfriend is pleasant enough. Chatting with Ashley-who still can't let go of a tragedy that happened on prom night-is a bit more uncomfortable. But the worst part comes when one of Kailyn's oldest friends is found dead in the ladies' room.

Soon this upstate New York town is in an uproar. And with some help from time-traveling wizard Merlin-who has adopted an unusual and alluring creature as his familiar-it's up to Kailyn to identify the alumnus most likely to commit murder . . .

My Thoughts on the Book …

Last year I was fortunate enough to recieve an ARC of the cosy mystery Late Checkout (Witch City Mystery #9) by Carol J. Perry through Netgalley. I read it shortly afterwards, but I haven't published my review until now.

Description from Goodreads
A dead ballplayer means foul play in Salem . . .

Field reporter Lee Barrett is not happy that her hours are being cut back at WICH-TV, although it is nice to spend more time volunteering with Aunt Ibby, a research librarian at Salem's main branch. But Lee's least favorite task is going up to the stacks, a spooky, seldom-frequented upper section of the library. On this day she has good reason to be afraid--she finds a dead man, surrounded by hundreds of scattered books and torn-out pages.

Her police detective beau, Pete Mondello, is soon on the scene, and the deceased is identified as a former minor league baseball player--and ex-con--named Wee Willie Wallace, who hasn't been seen in Salem for twenty years. With help from her …

Last year I was fortunate enough to recieve an ARC of the horror novel A Darker Shade by Laura K. Curtis. I read it shortly afterwards, but I haven't published my review until now.
Description from Goodreads
What is haunting young Liza Prescott?

Molly Allworth has been in service since leaving college when her mother died. Still, her situation is getting desperate and when the agency offers her a position that sounds too good to be true, she cannot resist.

Soon she finds herself in a remote house in Maine, caring for a little girl who swore she saw her mother’s ghost…before she stopped speaking entirely. Nathaniel Prescott, the child’s father, thinks any belief in the supernatural is absurdly credulous. Molly’s history and heritage, however, have given her a wider view.

There’s a significant bonus for Molly if she lasts the year. But as winter closes in and mysterious, often creepy events begin to occur, even her growing affection for Nathaniel and Liza may not be enough to make he…

It's Friday and time for a new Book Blogger Hop post, courtesy of Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer. The question of the week was "Would you consider giving out books to trick-or-treaters instead of candy?".


If the books were cheap enough, I certainly would, but in Norway, books can be a bit pricey.

Last year I recieved an ARC of the book Haunted Historic Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia: With Breakthrough Ghost Photography by Tim Scullion through Netgalley. I read it shortly afterwards and today I'll post my review.
Description from Goodreads
In this second edition of over 230 ghostly photographs from photographer Tim Scullion, view 114 brand-new images and read seven new chapters that bring the hauntings of Williamsburg, Virginia, alive. Continue along Scullion's paranormal odyssey to capture and describe each apparition and the historical and paranormal background of the eighteenth-century houses and buildings afflicted to see what new observations have sprung forth from the world "behind the curtain." Scullion has learned the secret to consistently capturing the city's ghostly apparitions on camera. You will see images that are beautiful, ugly, horrifying, and bizarre, and that defy explanation. Are they ghosts, aliens, angels, or demons? Take a look via d…