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Dr. Patricia Dey Cuendet
I always loved reading mysteries that included huge old spooky houses with creepy attics to explore during violent thunder storms, especially if there was a ghost involved. The Ghost in the Garden ...view moreI always loved reading mysteries that included huge old spooky houses with creepy attics to explore during violent thunder storms, especially if there was a ghost involved. The Ghost in the Garden has all of these and more, as young Jo Keaton desperately tries to save her beloved house from being demolished. I actually lived in this grand old house, and its footprint remains deep in the Thompson Woods on the campus of Southern Illinois University.
The story takes place in the summer of 1949 in a small Midwestern college town. It was an almost magical time and place in which to live, when life was so different than now. But the story also reaches back to a July night in 1858, when a tragedy occurred at the old Thompson house, one which affected all of the characters as well as the old house itself, and changed young Jo Keaton forever.view less