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As Shakespeare’s character Glendower brags in Henry IV:“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.” To which Hotspur replies, “Why, so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?”

In the latest release in my Sarah Woolson historical mystery series, THE CLIFF HOUSE STRANGLER, Madame Karpova claims that she, too, can call forth spirits from the ‘other side’.  But can she?

Turn down the lights, curl up with a steaming cup of apple cider, and journey back to a séance in San Francisco's famous old Cliff House. Discover if the mysterious Russian clairvoyant can conjure up the spirit of a murderer -- before that malevolent entity can strike again!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!


Shirley

What people are saying about THE CLIFF HOUSE STRANGLER

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: May 5, 2007 

Plucky lawyer Sarah Woolson arrives at rugged Land’s End on a dark and stormy night in Tallman’s third entertaining and atmospheric 1880s San Francisco whodunit. Socialites have gathered at Cliff House for a séance with Madame Karpova, self-proclaimed Russian psychic. She puts on a good show until tell-all columnist Darien Moss decides to spoil the party. Then comes a crash of lightning, the lights go out, and when they come back on, Darien is found garroted with a balalaika string. …Mounting corpses distract Sarah from the miseries of her first client, a single mother whose flight from a drunken husband provides a poignant subplot. Tallman throws in some unexpected twists, keeping the reader guessing to the end.

KIRKUS REVIEWS:  May 1, 2007

“Sarah Woolson is that rara avis, an attorney with her own practice in an era when women of her class aspire only to a good marriage. With Robert Campbell, a lawyer friend, she attends a séance at Cliff House. The medium Madame Karpova, her daughter and her brother Dmitry, are joined by several local worthies, including a state senator and a police lieutenant. Everyone who decries the dramatic entrance of Darien Moss, a scandal-mongering reporter, becomes a suspect when he’s garroted at the séance. …Soon another séance  attendee is murdered …and Sarah must fight the ingrained prejudice against women as capable thinkers in order to prove her theories, find a killer and unravel a complex scheme.  Tallman’s intelligent heroine is a delight!”