Dead Bolt: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery

Juliet Blackwell

Dec 2011 · Haunted Home Renovation Book 2 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Turner Construction's latest restoration project is a historic Queen Anne Victorian in San Francisco. This time general contractor Mel Turner has to work around the owners who insist on sticking around- along with some ghosts that insist in their own way that the work stops...

The ghosts aren't the only ones standing in the way of the renovations. A crotchety neighbor, Emile Blunt, secretly wants this house, and could be behind some of the disturbances. But when Emile is found dead, it's Mel who appears guilty. Now she must restore the building-and her reputation-before it's too late.

Ratings and reviews

family-dynamics, friendship, ghosts, restoration, general-contractor, law-enforcement, murder, secrets Former anthropologist Mel Turner is a general contractor working to restore/renovate a historic house which has some rather nasty ghosts distressing the young family who are the new owners. Mel is somewhat sensitive to spirits, but this is all new to her and she learns all sorts of interesting things about people who thrive on haunted buildings and that there are people who can help her both to learn and to free the departed to leave. And, of course, there is the murder (as well as physical sabotage which endangered the living. There's laughter and a smidge of romance as well. A great read that is so thoroughly enhanced by the audio interpretation of Xe Sands!

Great mystery with a haunted house full of ghost. I love the characters and can't wait to read the next one.

About the author

Juliet Blackwell is the pseudonym for the New York Times bestselling author of the Haunted Home Renovation Mystery series. She also writes the Witchcraft Mystery series and, together with her sister, wrote the Art Lover’s Mystery series as Hailey Lind. The first in the series, Feint of Art, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. She is also the author of the novels Letters from Paris and The Paris Key. As owner of her own faux-finish and design studio, the author has spent many days and nights on construction sites renovating beautiful historic homes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.