The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright ~ Book Review

Two years after Kaine Prescott's husband died in a car accident she is still trying to get them to investigate the crash further.  Her deep belief that his death was suspicious yet again fails to convince anyone.  And now she is being stalked by someone leaving daffodils for her but trying to convince the police is a huge undertaking and they are starting to look at her as a trouble maker.  On a whim, to give herself a fresh start, Kaine purchases a house in her grandfather's hometown from an online site without actually going to see it first.  But when she arrives to move in she finds way more than she bargained for.  It is totally rundown and abandoned, and as she starts to learn about the house's dark history she wonders what she has got herself into.  The when the flower has found her yet again, Ivy wonders if it isn't her lot in life to have death follow her.

Ivy Thorpe's father is the coroner in the same town a hundred years before.  Ivy is her father's right hand person and death does not bother her.  In fact, she is driven to honor the dead and record their stories.  The townspeople think she is strange.  When a young woman is found murdered on the property of the house, Ivy's search for her identity leads her into dangerous territory that she doesn't understand.

This is the author's first book and she has done a wonderful job in building her story.  I was caught up right from the beginning and the more you read the more you want to know what on earth is going on with this house.  The contemporary part of the story was interesting and moved along at a good pace and the historical part of the story had a real gothic flavor to it.  I loved how the author tied the two together and had me guessing to the end.  I found a few parts of the romance sections of the story typical but because the other parts of the story had me so engrossed it was easy to gloss over those.  A great first novel for this author.

I rated it a 9/10