Peyton Carmichael

The Haunting of Hood's Bluff Peyton Carmichael

Catharine Scott is over it. Working on Saturdays. Cranky clients. Student debt. Law is not so glam as she was lead to believe. But this new case does have a twist. Today's cranky client, the ancient Mrs. Winkler, wants her to inspect the old family house located waaay back in the country, near a crossroads called Hood's Bluff. It's always nice to get out of the office. But then there's the matter of the former inhabitant, the notoriously eccentric Clara Hood. She'd died at the house and her body was delivered to the hospital but now she's-to put it simply-gone. Just gone. And when Catharine arrives at the house it's pretty clear that someone is in there. Which is wrong. And it turns out the intruder wasn't interested in the obvious things, but was trying to steal some strange old books. Which is weird. And why do these huge black birds keep staring at her? Which is so weird. Catharine needs help, and she cobbles together a team. Duncan Lowe is an archaeologist and historian. And whose British accent is not unlike a stiff gin-and-tonic. Ann Hull is a deacon in the nearby Episcopal church and utterly fearless. Logan Stanley is a cub reporter for the Fort Baldwin Advocate and a magnet for trouble. John Coker is a linguist and code-breaker who was brought in as a consultant but who stays on to become part of Catharine's quest. Because when they learn what Clara Hood was up to in that creepy old house, well, you'll see...