{"id":13456,"date":"2020-09-23T17:11:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=13456"},"modified":"2024-01-22T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T00:30:10","slug":"spooky-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13456","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spooky Business<\/a><\/em> (2020) S.E. Harmon<\/a> (The Spectral Files)<\/p>\n

\"Spooky<\/a>Rain Christiansen is settling into life with Danny. They both work for the cold case unit, which uses Rain’s (non-publicized) talent as a Medium to help solve cold cases. The fact that Rain worked as a profiler for the FBI doesn’t hurt.<\/p>\n

But the FBI wants him back, and his old boss has asked him to interview a serial killer to see if the victims can be located (and if the killer had added his wife to the total)–all of which are complicating his relationship with Danny.<\/p>\n

Rain’s parents bought the land next door, and are now able to interfere at will.<\/p>\n

My mother opened her mouth gleefully, and my father, now my favorite parent, shoved a spoonful of the questionable mac and cheese in it. \u201cMjfsnuf,\u201d she mumbled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She stared at me without speaking. Her mouth moved silently, and I figured she was counting. She put the pentagon-shaped stone in my palm, and when I opened my mouth, she sent me a warning look. \u201cI\u2019d like you to remember I have another one of you, and I\u2019m willing to make do with just my first-born.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rain is still prickly with everyone, but he’s finally accepted that he is a medium and can talk to ghosts, and is learning how to deal with the ghosts in his life. Unfortunately, he’s not really learning fast enough.<\/p>\n

The mystery was ok. There were a couple issues where I lost track of who did what and was related to whom and how, but it wasn’t too bad (esp for a self-pubbed book).<\/p>\n

But the strength of the story was the characters, and I did adore the back and forth.<\/p>\n

I could see the writing on the wall. I leaned over my Echo. \u201cAlexa, order a family size bag of Skittles.\u201d <\/p>\n

Kevin pointed at me. \u201cYou\u2019ve always been the brains of this team, Christiansen. Don\u2019t let anyone tell you otherwise.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAlexa, order a rifle with a scope.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was fun, and I enjoyed it and it worked into the limited scope I have for books right now (nothing too dark, nothing too grim, nothing with an unhappy ending, lots of humor).
\nRating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spooky Business (2020) S.E. Harmon (The Spectral Files) Rain Christiansen is settling into life with Danny. They both work for the cold case unit, which uses Rain’s (non-publicized) talent as a Medium to help solve cold cases. The fact that Rain worked as a profiler for the FBI doesn’t hurt. But the FBI wants him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,2,8,42,148,26,56,16],"tags":[50,737,544,387,466],"class_list":["post-13456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","category-fantasy","category-mystery","category-police","category-queer","category-romance","category-sexual-content","category-supernatural","tag-boinking","tag-ghosts","tag-mm","tag-s-e-harmon","tag-the-spectral-files"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-3v2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12818,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12818","url_meta":{"origin":13456,"position":0},"title":"Principles of Spookology","author":"Michelle","date":"May 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Principles of Spookology (2020) S.E. 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