Overall this author has a pleasant and very readable writing style and I generally enjoyed this book except for the stories where the ghost was completely buried by history. Had she chosen her stories better she might well have avoided this problem because some her choices gave her very little ghostly activity to work with. On the other hand there are some other stories where a little more research could have produced much longer chapters filled with a lot more ghostly activity. Rotherwood Mansion for example was handled in less than four pages leaving out completely the stories of demon hounds that have been reported on the estate. Even with the flaws though this is still a reasonably good book but not a great one. As Maxwell Smart used to say, "She missed it by that [ ] much.
I gave this book three stars because while it was intriguing and informative regarding some of the ghost stories of my home state, it was poorly written to the point of distraction at times.