Take a haunted mansion, complete with 25 bedrooms and a ballroom that is collecting dust. Add a revenge-seeking ghost. Sprinkle in a suspicious death and an evil secret. Garnish with a mysterious gardener... a sweet, elegant aunt and a crazy as a bat step-aunt. Toss in a couple of disgruntled servants...mix well with a huge dollop of a remarkably accurate psychic... and you have the makings of another excellent story by one of my favorite m/m romance writers, Josh Lanyon. Its a thoroughly enjoyable read, with a great crew of characters...but then I have never found one of Josh Lanyon's stories that wasn't...and I think I have read almost everything she has ever out on paper between two covers. The mysteries in her books are never so complex that you don't get it...but they do have the ability to make you want to read them again and again. ( )

4.5 stars round up.
An excellent creepy 'haunted house' mystery, complete with an engaging lead and love interest. All the secondary characters are either batty or suspicious which plays well with the genre and there are enough clues scattered around that the resolution doesn't come completely out of the blue.
The romance is low key as normal with a Lanyon book, but believable enough for me. I would say that the setting and some of the characters did feel more suited to a period piece.
Recommended.

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4.5 stars round up.
An excellent creepy 'haunted house' mystery, complete with an engaging lead and love interest. All the secondary characters are either batty or suspicious which plays well with the genre and there are enough clues scattered around that the resolution doesn't come completely out of the blue.
The romance is low key as normal with a Lanyon book, but believable enough for me. I would say that the setting and some of the characters did feel more suited to a period piece.
Recommended.

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​In some ways a very modern story in other a classic who done it mystery. In all ways, an enjoyable read.

Artemus is summoned back to his childhood home by his Aunt Halcyone. There he finds his aunt stressed to breaking point, everybody believing the house is haunted and, perhaps, his aunt involved in the death of her husband.

Artemus knows no more than the reader about what is going on and so we get the clues at the same pace as he does. It becomes a race to see who can work out who did what to whom and when the first. An enjoyable race and the unexpected ending caught me as off guard as Artimus.

There is also a lovely romance. This book is clearly labelled as gay romance so a bit of male on male sex is only to be expected but it is sensitively written and feels right in the context of the story.

At the moment this is a stand-alone story but should Artemus reappear in another adventure I would be more than happy to read more about him. ( )