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Sunday, September 23, 2007

Publishers Weekly review for New-Slain Knight

So, I guess they don't think it sucks:

New-Slain Knight: A Haunted Ballad Mystery
Deborah Grabien. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $24.95
(256p) ISBN 978-0-312-37400-6

In Grabien's enthralling fifth Haunted Ballad mystery,
a tragedy in 1481 Cornwall has startling modern-day
repercussions for musician Ringan Laine; his
psychically talented “significant other,” Penny
Wintercraft-Hawkes; and Ringan's beautiful adolescent
niece, gifted violinist Rebecca Eisler. Becca
accompanies Ringan and Penny on holiday to visit
rakish, middle-aged Gowan Camborne, who invites Becca
and Ringan to perform with his group, the Tin Miners.
Gowan is shocked by Becca's resemblance to a lost
love, while Penny senses something off about his St.
Ives family estate. Then Penny and Becca encounter
restless spirits seeking contact, apparently stirred
up by an old folk ballad, and Becca becomes
increasingly sensitive to the ghost of Jenna Camborne,
one of Gowan's ancestors. The need to learn the truth
behind a 500-year-old crime before another death
occurs today gives Penny, Ringan and their friends a
major challenge and provides Grabien's fans with
another chilling psychic puzzler. (Nov.)


I'll take that in a heartbeat.