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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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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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Christmas Carol Murder by Leslie Meier
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The Stone Bull by Phyllis A. Whitney
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I used to read a lot of Phyllis Whitney books back when I was in my teens and 20s (we're talking at least 40 years ago). I came across this one and was surprised at finding one I hadn't read before.

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Willa of Dark Hollow by Robert  Beatty
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I liked this one as much as the first Willa novel, though it's a bit more complicated in its messages, and it's more difficult to tell who are the good guys and who are the villains. But the writing and setting and story-telling are all excellent. Pa ...more
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The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear
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The first plot in this book was worthy of Winspear. Good premise, good characters, great setting--I will say that I love books set in the aftermath of war more than during the war itself. It's not as often used, but it shows people coping with the me ...more
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The Girl in the Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn
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I was a chapter or two into this book when I realized I'd read it before, but it's a good story so I reread it. I love Hahn's ghost stories. They aren't that scary--good for young readers and people like me who were never into horror.

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Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
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At first I wasn't even sure I'd finish this book. It had a slow start, as if the author wasn't sure how to get into this very complicated story. I didn't like any of the characters, especially the narrator, who let everyone bully her--not just the bu ...more
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Girls on the Rise by Amanda Gorman
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The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane by Julia Nobel
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This novel was a good way to spend summer days when I needed to stay mostly indoors. The setting was great, old, mysterious, a little creepy, with a Harry-Potter-without-the-magic feel to it.

I liked the characters--kids and adults--though at times I
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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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