I took Amazon's recommendation on this one. It was fun and I will definitely read the next one - actually it was the next one that was on Amazon's list. After reading the free sample, I hunted down the first one and got it.
California again, but Southern Cali this time. Emma, the heroine, lives in the LA area, but it looks like, based on book one and the excerpt of book two, that Jaffarian is going to feature choice locations in southern California. The first one featured the former gold-rush town of Julian, near San Diego. She informs us in an afterword that we can go there and trace Emma's steps. She claims to have been faithful to both the setting and the history of the town. The second takes place on Catalina Island. Maybe she will go a bit north and do Solvang. She can write a lot of books about scenic and historically interesting spots in California. Maybe someone should try that for New Mexico.
Emma is in her mid-forties and in the process of divorcing her TV personality jerk of a husband, and in the process of rebuilding her life reconnects with an old friend and UCLA prof who asks her to go with her to a seance which is part of the friend's research. Enter Emma's great-great-great-grandmother, who was hung for murdering her husband, and wants her name cleared.
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