Wednesday, November 2, 2022

The Stroke of Winter: A Novel —by Wendy Webb

 Publisher: Lake Union Publishing

November 1, 2022

ASIN: B09PBJ3JML

6732 KB

5 Stars

 

It’s winter in the lakeside town of Wharton and Tess Bell is renovating the old family home into a bed and breakfast. There are nights when she hears something scratching to get out from behind a door that has been locked since way before she was born.

 

A hard storm comes to town, and she rescues a white dog, who moves in. Obviously, he had a home, but no one has reported him missing, and he’s stayed. He, too hears the scratching.

 

When the room is opened, she finds her late grandfather’s studio and five paintings by him that give her nightmares, as they tell of a nightmarish incident. Was her grandfather a killer? What would that do to his and the families reputation? She never knew him as he died before she was born, but heard stories, and his paintings brought big bucks to the family. Who is the ghost trying to get out? Who is the man seen in the window? So many questions! And the pages seem to turn by themselves to show me the answers.

 

A fun book, a great read. Light a fire in the fireplace, fix a hot drink of choice, and settle back for a truly fun ghost story.

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