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Book Review of The Presence (Harrison Investigation, Bk 2)

The Presence (Harrison Investigation, Bk 2)
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Toni Fraser and her group of friends think they've hit on the ultimate money-making plan. Buy an ancient run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist destination. Sweep visitors nightly into a reenactment that combines fact and fiction, complete with local history, murder and an imaginary laird named Bruce MacNiall.

Although this is all "made up" by Toni, the castle's real owner and laird turns out to be a formidable Scot named Bruce MacNiall. Not only that, his family history is exactly what Toni has fictionalized. How can this be?

Soon the group is drawn into a real-life murder mystery; young women are being killed, and their bodies dumped in a forest on the castle's land. Toni has sinister lifelike dreams in which she sees through the eyes of the killer-dreams that suggest a connection to Laird MacNiall.

This is a real who-done-it with dual mysteries of murder both current and centuries old with a great emphesis on the paranormal.

I'm usually not much of a mystery fan, butI couldn't put this one down.