Spiritualism. Divination. The occult. A man who doesn't believe. A boy who does.
1928. It has been San Francisco's most roaring, most extravagant, most superstitious decade of them all. Mason is a walldog, hoisting himself high in the air to paint advertisements on tall brick structures. When he becomes the target of a bedeviling presence within the walls of a vacant saloon, he confronts his skepticism with the assistance of a mysterious orphan boy and discovers a stronger connection to the building than he ever could have imagined.
Dedicated to lovers of historical fiction and ghost stories, Ghost Signs is a paranormal mystery that takes place during the Roaring Twenties in the Barbary Coast neighborhood of San Francisco. This psychological thriller centers on a traveling sign painter who comes out west on Route 66 and features California Gold Rush history, the Spiritualism movement, Prohibition, and hot jazz.