The Curse of Misty Wayfair
Questions of identity, family conflict, wondering whether God cares, and ghostly apparitions popping up in windows to scare your socks off... I love Jamie Jo Wright. She writes creepy in a truly wonderful way. Much in the style of her debut novel, The House on Foster Hill (read my review on that here ), The Curse of Misty Wayfair is written split between two timelines - 1908 and present day. Between Thea Reed, lonely orphan and postmortem photographer on the search to find her mother, and Heidi Lane, visiting her own mother who struggles with dementia, Jaime Jo Wright spins another brilliantly frightening novel. The curse of Misty Wayfair is an unexplained phenomenon lingering over a place called Pleasant Valley, where both characters seem to find their way home. An old, questionable asylum in the woods and sightings of a woman long-believed dead - in both timelines - make for a chilling and terrific tale of mysteries, relationships, mental illness, and old fam