The Haunting Of Maddy Clare

The Haunting Of Maddy Clare

Adult mystery
"I looked around me. The fire was gone, I was in the cool,
silent barn again; alone, with mist on the windows. The flames, the
burning beams, all of it had utterly disappeared.
I looked up. The roof was as it had been, rafters intact.
Stupidly, my panicked brain began to slow and calculate. Somehow,
there had never been a fire."
Simone St. James' The Haunting Of Maddy Clare takes readers back
to an England just recovering from the double whammy of world war and
influenza pandemic. Sarah's temp agency has hooked her up with an
unusual job--becoming the new member of a ghost hunting group. They
have a mandate to send a troubled and troublesome earthbound spirit
out of the barn from which she's wreaking havoc. Sarah's presence is
required because Maddy hates men.
Maddy had arrived at the Clare home as a child of about twelve--
filthy, barely clothed, mute, and traumatized. Inquiries into runaway
servant girls yielded nothing. So the Clares had done their best by
her until she hung herself at the age of nineteen.
Maddy's earthly remains were interred in the village cemetery.
But her spirit hung on, terrifying the woman who had taken her in with
random acts of destruction. But she's even more dangerous than the
living realize.
A vengeful ghost with supernatural powers is not the only peril
Sarah faces. Everybody in the small town knows why she's there.
Someone will go to great lengths to keep her from unearthing too many
secrets.
If you're a mystery lover make sure to read The Haunting Of
Maddy Clare--just not home alone on a dark and stormy night.
On a purrrsonal note, Saturday lived down to the meteorologists'
predictions. It rained steady all day. Sunday was sunny but
truckless. I have no idea when we'll again be with truck. But I had
a great weekend--mostly due to the nice stack of library books Emily
dropped off on Friday. :-) (Jules)
It rained and rained and rained and then rained some more. (Tobago)
A great big shout out goes out to all from preK to PhD who are going
back to school in person, online, or hybrid and our teachers and
professors who are coping with a new normal that is nothing they could
have envisioned when they made their career plans.
Tobago and Jules Hathaway




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