Secondhand Spirits
By Juliet Blackwell
July 2009
This is a mystery novel with a strong witchcraft foundation and light romance elements.
Lily Ivory has been a solitary practicing witch until she settles in San Francisco and opens Aunt Cora’s Closet, a boutique for vintage clothing. She has a surprise visitor. Aiden Rhodes, a male witch; definitely not a person to trust by anybody normal or magical. Which makes his gift, a goblin with the ability to change its physical appearance and blend into society, all the more suspicious. She names him Oscar until she can rightfully return it.
Inventorying the possible purchase of old clothing belonging to Mrs. Frances Potts, a little girl is kidnapped from her front porch of the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. In her circle the culprit is a demon called La Llorona. A protection spell doesn’t seem out of the question when Lily suspects further danger by evil spirits against the elderly woman. The morning after her excursion she finds the spell wasn’t successful. Mrs. Potts has been murdered. With only an absentee daughter Lily takes on solving the murder and returning little Jessica to her family before her soul is irreconcilable lost under the La Llorona’s influence.
Lily can’t find the answers alone. Who will she ask that won’t run away in normal fashion?
Secondhand Spirits by Juliet Blackwell is filled with the inside world of witchcraft. Vintage clothing is not my thing, but I liked the way she made it part of the story and character. It has a light touch of comedy and sentimentally that won’t crush your spirit.
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