| After the sheer unmitigated raw savagery of Stephen Graham Jones, this is something of a genteel middle-class comedy of manners, not that there's anything wrong with that. When Blaylock isn't running around Victorian England, he's spinning fantasies and ghost stories set in Orange County, California, which is mostly sun-drenched, except when yet another hundred-year storm is boiling on the horizon, and threatneing the allotment/market community co-op that is Jane's life work. While her husband, Joseph, is digging out bones and treasure from their cellar, she's meeting with the peculiar Lettie Phibbs, who wants to provide some financial assistance, but who quickly catches scent of an opportunity. While all this unfolds and the storm closes in, Jane and Joseph are haunted by realistic dreams of old betrayal and murder. 

An enjoyable, twisty thriller with ghosty elements.