The Haunting of Maddy Clare

A hauntingly good book that delivers with chills, creepy scenes and mystery! Alistair Gellis, a ghost hunter, has hired Sarah Piper from a temporary agency. Initially Sarah is concerned but finds she is also intrigued by the sense of adventure and the handsome man who proposes an eerie job descriptio......more

3.75 ⭐️ for this “spooky season” read! It’s 1920’s England, so this ghost story has the feeling of a more “traditional” haunting… Sarah Piper is an orphan of limited means, so when the Temp Agency she is employed by, asks her to accept an assignment assisting Alistair Gellis, a ghost hunter, she real......more

Twenty-five-year-old Sarah Piper gets a call from the temporary agency that she works for. A male writer is requesting an assistant and he is asking for a female. Sarah is to meet him at a coffee house in Soho, London. Sarah goes to the coffee house and meets Alistair Gellis, a young, handsome man.......more

This is my second Simone St. James book. I intend to read at least 5 of her books back-to-back and I started with The Broken Girls (which I loved). I enjoyed the intricacies of the plotting in The Broken Girls more than Maddy Clare, but the characters were more enjoyable and developed in this book. I......more