Tressa “Calamity” Jayne Turner is back again, but this time she’s after the story of a lifetime. A reclusive writer arrives at the haunted mansion just outside of town. No one has seen or spoken to the author in years. If she could just land the interview, Tressa was certain she’d be able to get a full-time job on the newspaper. The only thing stopping her was a blackmailing homecoming queen candidate who also wants to meet the writer, a grandmother with a collection of fertility gods who moves into Tressa’s home, her grandmother’s boyfriend who supposedly was paid $50 bucks to take the writer to her high school prom, a rival reporter who thinks he has the inside track to the story and that sexy park ranger who always manages to show up just in time to spoil her plans or save her life. But as Tressa digs into the mystery behind the writer, the more likely it is that she’ll end up laying in the graveyard near the haunted house.
My original plan was to post this review on Halloween, but despite its title, haunted house and the occasional ghost this isn’t a Halloween story. While it’s funny in many places too, something is missing in this story that I enjoyed in her previous stories. It could be that the collection of blonde jokes is missing , but more likely there just wasn’t the continuous danger and sexual tension that kept me turning the pages in her previous books. Still it’s an enjoyable read and one that any Calamity Jayne fan would like.
Details: Love Spell, October 2006
Bottom line: A very good book
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