The Elusive Voice (Michael Merrick Mysteries)

Rating:
Summary: 2nd Merrick mystery isn't quite as good...
Review: Mary Jo Adamson manages to tell an entertaining story in her "Elusive Voice" about a suspictious death of a Harvard professor, and the Spiritualist seance at which it happened. Michael Merrick, a skeptic and recupating police reporter, is asked to look into the mystery and into Syvlie, the medium at the seance. Adamson wrecks the contuinity of the story by making this story set in the early 1870's, while refercing the first, which seemed to have been set in the 1840's. This is one reason why I couldn't rate this as good as the first book. Merrick eventually does uncover the death as a murder, as he tries to protect Sylvie from danger, and solve the mystery. Interesting twist at the end, as we discover who the "Spirit Killer" is. It does capture the early 1870s well, and I did like what Adamson had to say, so I will give this 3 stars, and recommend it.