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Elena Santangelo

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ELENA SANTANGELO pens the Possessed Mystery series, including Agatha Award finalist BY BLOOD POSSESSED. The series features laid-off office clerk turned ghostbuster, Pat Montella, and her 91 year-old sidekick, Miss Maggie. These novels combine murder, ghosts, history, and a protagonist brought up on Italian cooking and superstitions. Latest in the series is FEAR ITSELF, in which a ghost from the Great Depression helps Pat solve a present day murder in her hometown.

Elena's Twins Mystery Series begins with the novel TWO-FACED, which introduces Gen Ziegler, forensic psychologist, and her mirror-image twin, Sara. In THE TODD CHRONICLES, Todd MacBride, a geeky psych student, appoints himself as Gen Ziegler's "Dr. Watson" as he puts a hilarious s
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By Blood Possessed (Pat Mon...

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Hang My Head And Cry

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Poison to Purge Melancholy ...

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Fear Itself  (Pat Montella,...

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Two-Faced

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Dame Agatha's Shorts: An Ag...

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Double Cross (Twins, #3)

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True to His Country

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On Sunday, November 30 and Monday December 1, these short stories from my Twins Mystery Series will be FREE on Kindle. Click on the titles to link to the page.


Mirror, Mirror - A man sees premonitions of serial murders but no one believes him, until psychologist Sara Ziegler is sure that her twin sister Gen is the next victim.

Ring of Truth - Sara and Gen Ziegler suspect a neigh Read more of this blog post »
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I read another middle grade book a few years ago that was written in verse and there it was used totally as a gimmick. That book was lousy and I couldn't finish it. So when I began reading this one and saw it was written in poetry form, I was extreme ...more
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I liked the 1st book in the series so I thought I'd try the 2nd. The characters were, again, interesting and engaging. The pacing, I thought, was much better than the first book.

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I'd read Walden twice before, in my 20s, then 30s. And Civil Disobedience in high school during the Nixon years. And some of Thoreau's trip on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers when I was looking for poetry about rivers when I was in my 40s. So, I figu ...more
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I know the publisher said it to sell books, but this isn't a "Halloween book". It's not horror, or even a mystery. It IS a well-written, fairly well-researched historical novel about 17th century New England. The horror about it was the religious int ...more
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Elena Santangelo Beth wrote: "Hi Elena,
Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery author on Goodreads! See you at Malice this year?"


Definitely. See you there.


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Beth Hi Elena,
Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery author on Goodreads! See you at Malice this year?


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