Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
By Blood Possessed
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Elena Santangelo
Class/Genre: Mystery
St. Martin's, Oct 1999,$24.95, 336 pp.
Pat Montella works in an office in Southeast Pennsylvania. She plans to vacation in a Bell Run, Virginia where a civil war estate exists in a rural part of the state. Though she does not know the current owner, if she stays for one week she inherits the property when Magnolia Shelby dies. Pat plans to sell the land until she meets its owner and sees the property.
Pat begins to sense events that occurred during the Civil War. Apparently, the estate resides on a window to the past and Pat can see through the opening to the 1860s. Someone else prefers Pat to not inherit Bell Run. That unknown individual tries to kill Pat. When a murder happens, Pat, accompanied by a smart teen, seeks to learn the truth.
BY BLOOD POSSESSED is a combination family saga wrapped inside an interesting mystery. Elena Santangelo provides readers with different views of Bell Run by alternating chapters between the past and the present. The author also furnishes the audience with the horror of battle. If this debut tale is any indication, Ms. Santangelo will gift readers with many future novels.
Harriet Klausner
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