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REVIEW: House of Whispers by Margaret Lucke

Dear Ms. Lucke,

Book CoverNothing beats a good old-fashioned ghost story. When I was a child, I loved tales of haunted houses and would soak them up every Halloween when they’d get touted out. But while I enjoyed ghost stories then, I’ve discovered that I’m far pickier about haunted house novels as an adult.

After putting her life on hold to put her husband through law school, only to discover he had an affair with a younger classmate, Claire Scanlan serves him divorce papers and moves cross-country to San Francisco to start over. There, she lands a position at a prestigious real estate firm and soon acquires her first property to sell.

Unfortunately, Claire has two problems. The firm has also hired another rookie agent who’s younger, more aggressive, and not above using her sex appeal to get her way. And if none of those things work, she resorts to deliberate sabotage. Secondly, the property she needs to sell was the site of a vicious multiple murder where the son of the previous owner killed his entire family before taking his own life. Two real estate companies previously tried to sell the mansion with no …