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Fans of Amanda Flower and Heather Blake will delight in this latest mystery in the Witch City series, featuring Lee Barrett, program director for Salem, Massachusetts's local station, WICH-TV, and a cast of colorful characters and sleuthing helpersincluding her detective sergeant husband, and a clairvoyant cat, O'Ryan. Just married, Lee and her husband, Detective Sergeant Pete Mondello, are settling into their new home when Lee is dubbed WICH-TV's new ';Historical Documentary Chief Executive.' Her first subject is the brand-newSalem International Museum, slated to be a location for traveling blockbuster exhibits, starting with ';Seafaring New England.' From research to collecting artifacts of Salem's long-ago days as a shipping capital, the project is a challengebut when the driver of a truckload of antiquities turns up dead under a pile of fall leaves, it's not quite the kind of challenge Lee expected . . . Soon, Lee and Pete are dredging up clues along with a hardy crew of helpers, including Lee's librarian aunt, Ibby, Lee's best friend and practicing witch, River Northand of course the clairvoyant cat, O'Ryan. But when a ship model in the exhibit's collection appears to be haunted, Lee will have to dive into her own treasure trove of psychic gifts before a killer comes to the surface to strike again . . . Praise for the Witch City Mysteries';Yet another hit in the Witch City Mystery series!' Fresh Fiction on Murder, Take Two';Carol J. Perry juggles these details with finesse and moves the plot toward a creepy conclusion that adds a few shivers to this cozy.' BookPage on Late Checkout