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Elena Santangelo

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Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 312 ratings · 41 reviews · 36 distinct works

	By Blood Possessed (Pat Montella, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hang My Head And Cry 3.88 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poison to Purge Melancholy (Pat Montella, #3) 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fear Itself (Pat Montella, #4) 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two-Faced 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dame Agatha's Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Double Cross (Twins, #3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	True to His Country 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Todd Chronicles (Twins, #2) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cliff-Hanger 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #3)

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Elena Santangelo is currently reading The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #3) by Trenton Lee Stewart (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Elena Santangelo rated a book it was amazing Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I downloaded this 2 days before we had enough snow to keep me from going anywhere for a long weekend.This book was exactly what I needed--an interesting set of subjects and an entertainingly funny narrator. I wasn't looking for deep science, but I al ...more
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Elena Santangelo rated a book liked it Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I love gardening and I love history, so this book seemed perfect for me. And I did enjoy some of it and those parts I'd give 5 stars. The rest, one or 2 stars at the very most. What I liked: Stories about how Jefferson, Adams and other founders took g ...more
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Elena Santangelo rated a book really liked it Cold-Blooded Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 3) (Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries) by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I somehow missed book 2, but I liked this 3rd installment almost as much as the first. Myrtle is a terrific character and I love the team of her and Miss Judson as investigators. There seemed to be more series characters this time--a little hard to k ...more
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Most of these stories are from a time when authors wrote for serial publications and got paid by the word, so I expected them to long and, well, maybe too wordy. Some were longer than we're used to these days, but most weren't and with few exceptions ...more
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