Ground Rules

The Salt Mine #3

by Joseph Browning, Suzi Yee

Welcome to the Salt Mine, a black ops agency that monitors and manages supernatural activity from its subterranean headquarters in the deep mineral mines of Detroit, Michigan, USA. When magic is real, someone has to keep it in check.

Cable TV paranormal investigators announce plans to air footage of a ghost attack, and there is more at risk than exposure of the supernatural. Agent David Wilson—codename Fulcrum—is sent to intercept the video and investigate whether the spirits of Great Missenden really have attacked a human and in so doing, broken the Pacification Treaty.

Can he keep the peace long enough to uncover the truth?

210 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 31, 2019

Reviews

[Shelly Roke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clover kicks butt!!

A ghost hunting show on a small network gets great reviews and copycats, so they film an episode in England, at a haunted Abbey. The English actress hired as a guest host gets attacked in her sleep-no one's there. A month later, a small ghost hunting group has their first meeting in the same place, Buckinghamshire, England. Three hours later, one of them is dead in a disturbing fashion. The other three are confirmed to have left by train and are at their homes. The first event brought in the Salt Mine. The second means something serious is happening. Fulcrum is dispatched to England and finds that things are bad enough to call in Clover, because the issues involve the fae. More magic and this time ghosts help!

[Gilbert Stack · Rating 4 out of 5]

Browning and Yee return to the roots of the series with a book firmly grounded in the supernatural. The problem is found at a haunted monastery in which the ghosts—despite a treaty—and yes, I just wrote “despite a treaty”—appear to be killing humans who visit the grounds. And if that doesn’t catch your attention, the odds are high you don’t really like the supernatural genres.

Browning and Yee provide a lot of effortless world building in this book, making the foundations of their supernatural series much firmer in the process. We learn a little more about magic, ghosts, and magic items. Perhaps most importantly, we also learn how people who don’t really believe in these things can cause lots of problems.

[Colin Melton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this third book. I liked getting to see Wilson work on his own and enjoyed getting to see more supernatural elements come to play. I like the twists and turns this particular story took. Still in need of a better editor.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

another good salt mine

The salt mine series is an interesting series. This time ghosts and fae turn up to be dealt with. Looking forward to the next one