SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE

By Wendy Corsi Staub

Bella Jordan is a young widow getting used to running the Valley View Guesthouse in the town of Lily Dale. Mostly filled with felines, Bella is looking forward to peace and quiet considering its wintertime and off-season. She likes the town, even if it is a bit odd. After all, many of the residents believe that Lily Dale has some type of connection to the psychic world.

Her very good friend and neighbor, Odelia Lauder, believes that the two of them should go into the wedding-planning business. It seems that Odelia’s granddaughter is friendly with a girl who is hunting for an “out-of-the-way” place to hold her ceremony, and the town of Lily Dale is just what she’s been looking for.

Bella soon finds that the bride-to-be, Johneen Maynard, is very single-minded. Whereas the groom, Parker Langley, is much easier to get along with. When they descend on the town, he is the calm fellow who helps Bella and her son Max put together a wedding that will go off without a hitch. Unfortunately, the hitches keep happening.

Odelia, meanwhile, also wants to be of help to Bella. But the only thing she’s done so far is anger the bride by delivering messages from the “spirit world” that Johneen might be in horrific danger. To make matters worse, a blizzard is bearing down on their location. When it finally hits, the spirits words come true, leaving Bella with a dead bride and a guesthouse full of suspects.

Staub is a writer who always has a surprise waiting around every corner, and this title is no different. The writing is so vivid that the reader feels as if they’re a part of the frenzy happening inside this Upstate New York bed-and-breakfast, and using the spirit world to bring about a murder turns out to be the perfect recipe for a great read!