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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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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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Cliff-Hanger

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3 Free Kindle Short Stories

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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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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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