In the fifth installment of author Lauren Carr’s Mac Faraday
mystery series, Spencer police chief David O’Callaghan, son of a former police
chief and both Mac Faraday’s friend and half-brother, orders the retired and
divorced homicide detective to avoid the southern side of the town’s
mountaintop, for therein lies the enigmatic Astaire Castle, ranked as one of
the most possessed locations in the United States, what with a number of
suicides and murders there. Despite his half-sibling’s admonishment, Mac is
lured into the castle, with more murders occurring, and Mac running into many
peculiar characters. As with other books in the series, a list of dramatis
personae precedes the main text, and those that haven’t read prior books in the
series will be happy to know that they need not have read them to enjoy this
one, which is as with other entries in its pantheon, is a suspenseful and
entertaining read.
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