Title: How to Survive a Killer Séance
Author: Penny Warner
Release Date: 1 March 2011
Part of Series: A Party Planning Mystery #3
Publisher: Signet
Find it on Goodreads: Mixing fun and fund-raising seems the perfect job for Presley Parker, which is why she started her Killer Parties event-planning business. But her previous parties pale in comparison to a spooky séance and a creepy crime…
Presley’s newest gig is a séance party at San Jose’s famous Winchester Mystery House. Her client, Jonathan Ellington, plans to use the event to unveil his new “4-D” holographic technology, which will bring former owner Sarah Winchester “back from the dead.” But the stunt backfires when a disembodied voice accuses Ellington of infidelity in front of his wife and business associates, and the techie who’s monitoring the holograph is found murdered. Suspicion falls on Ellington, but as Presley tries to get at the truth, she doesn’t need a Ouija board to tell her someone wants to scare her to death… (Summary from publisher’s website)
My Review: This is the 3rd book featuring Presley Parker and it was quite good. I have had the opportunity to visit the Winchester Mystery House (well worth the visit), and it was a lot of fun “revisiting” through the book. I didn’t think the mystery was as well-developed as the earlier books – it seemed more guesswork than deduction. Also, Presley’s friends didn’t seem to be in this book as much as in the first two books. Overall though, it was a good read and I look forward to the next one in the series.
The next book is titled How to Party with a Killer Vampire, and is out 4 October 2011.
Visit the author at http://www.pennywarner.com/
Happy reading,
Alison
