House on Widows Hill, The
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Ishmael Jones investigates a haunted house . . . but is haunted by his own past in the latest of this quirky paranormal mystery series.
"That house is a bad place. Bad things happen there . . ."
Set high on top of Widows Hill, Harrow House has remained empty for years. Now, on behalf of an anonymous prospective buyer, Ishmael and Penny are spending a night there in order to investigate the rumours of strange lights, mysterious voices, unexplained disappearances, and establish whether the house is really haunted.
What really happened at Harrow House all those years ago? Joined by a celebrity psychic, a professional ghost-hunter, a local historian and a newspaper reporter, it becomes clear that each member of 'Team Ghost' has their own pet theory as to the cause of the alleged haunting. But when one of the group suddenly drops dead with no obvious cause, Ishmael realizes that if he can find out how and why the victim died, he will have the key to solving the mystery.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author Green's humdrum ninth mystery featuring the disguised extraterrestrial known as Ishmael Jones finds Jones, who was transformed by alien technology into a simulacrum of a human after his spacecraft crashed in England in 1963, and Penny Belcourt, his love interest/investigative partner, still in Bath after the events of 2019's Night Train to Murder. Their employer, the Organization, which specializes in "investigating weird cases and strange happenings, in return for guaranteed anonymity," wants them while there to check out Harrow House, a supposedly haunted building "that no one dares turn their back on." An unnamed higher-up in the Organization is interested in purchasing the house, and wants to know what he'd be getting into. Jones and Belcourt's ghost-hunting coincides with efforts by a group of amateur investigators, one of whom ends up dead, giving the pair a murder to solve as well. A predicable plot builds to a disappointing solution to the murder. Paranormal mystery fans will be better served elsewhere.
