haunted

Jul 2021 17

Meet Randy Wayne White’s Hannah Smith in Gone, Deceived, and Haunted

2021 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sharon Tucker

by Sharon Tucker

If you’ve read Randy Wayne White’s Doc Ford series set in southeast Florida, then you will know Hannah Smith. She’s not an academic like Ford, but rather counts herself among generations of Smith women who have blazed trails through Florida. Hannah’s knowledge comes from living in the midst of legends that sprang from her ancestors’ experiences, events, and conditions, trying her best to champion what is right without the least bit of fanfare. She has an uncluttered quality about her: she knows the water, she knows the land, she knows how to teach game fishing, and she knows how to apply what she knows to investigating her friends’ problems.

Sep 2020 26

Checked Out for Murder, The Haunted Library Mystery By Allison Brook: Review/Giveaway/Guest Post

2020 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sandra Murphy

by Sandra Murphy &
Allison Brook

Daphne Marriott drops by and introduces herself to Carrie Singleton, library events planner. As a psychic, she’s setting up a business to give readings and wants to do a library presentation to introduce herself to the townspeople. Evelyn, the library ghost, remembers Daphne, whose father was murdered many years ago. Daphne fingered her brother for the crime. Still, the event goes smoothly except for one glitch when Daphne recognizes someone in the audience.

Oct 2018 13

The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller By Cleo Coyle: Review/Giveaway/Guest Post

2018 Articles, Lorie Lewis Ham, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Lorie Lewis Ham
& Cleo Coyle

The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller is the new Haunted Bookshop Mystery by Cleo Coyle. This series started several years ago and stopped after five books. Now it's finally back with book 6. The series features widowed bookstore owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and the ghost that haunts her bookshop, 1940s P.I. Jack Shepard.

Oct 2016 8

The Hauntings Of Van Cortlandt Park

2016 Articles, Hometown History, Margaret Mendel

by Margaret Mendel

When I lived in the Bronx, every once in a while in the hour before the morning light leaked across the horizon of the midnight blue sky, I’d be awoken by a train whistle. I used to think it was a dream or perhaps simply my sleepy mind confusing the raggedy sound of a car horn for a Pullman. But there were no trains in that area. There hadn’t been any trains in more than a hundred years. You see I lived on the edge of Van Cortlandt Park, a haunted section of 1,000 acres that spreads out across the most northerly section of New York City in the Borough of the Bronx.

Oct 2011 29

Haunted

2011 Articles, Margaret Mendel, Mysteryrat's Maze, Terrific Tales

by Margaret Mendel

Most people picture houses when they think of something haunted. They see dark, old creaky, rotting wooden stairways, and locked rooms that groan and whisper in deserted houses overgrown with weeds and twisted vines crawling up the sides of the walls. These are the places people usually think are haunted. I used to believe that too, but not any more.