

I found the resolution to the mystery very interesting and also sad. The past and past misdeeds really do come back to haunt them. The last doctor in charge of the Gables is still alive and has a very high opinion of herself and her work. In this case the ghosts still had a physical form. It makes you wonder if ghosts will make an appearance. The idea of renovating a Victorian era asylum into a hotel and shops is intriguing. It’s fun that her love interest is a thriller author, Mac. Shannon Hammer is a personable character. I really like the Bibliophile mysteries by Kate Carlisle but a contractor as a sleuth didn’t appeal to me until I read the description for Premeditated Mortar. Now Shannon is determined to get to the bottom of the goings-on at the Gables even if it kills her. Despite her close call, Shannon wants nothing more than to get back to work.until she finds a body not far from where she was pushed. She’s even more freaked out when someone pushes her into a pit of bricks in a closed-off room of the asylum. Shannon is raring to get started on the enormous project and is shocked when a group of unruly protesters shows up at the groundbreaking ceremony and wreaks havoc. Jane plans to turn her section into a small luxury hotel complete with 20 ocean-view rooms, a spa, and a restaurant. Her best friend Jane Hennessey has purchased one wing of the Gables, formerly the old state insane asylum, located on a bucolic hillside two miles northeast of Lighthouse Cove. Shannon Hammer is about to embark on one of the biggest projects of her career. Contractor Shannon Hammer gets tangled up in murder at a spooky old asylum in the latest Fixer-Upper Mystery from New York Times best-selling author Kate Carlisle.
