Barry certainly has a way with telling a story. Here we have modern Salem, touting witchery and the Witch Trials to build tourism. And it's Halloween, perfect for an other worldly murder mystery....maybe. There's the crazy old homeless lady who rails of banshees coming for the dead. And there's the little girl, now grown, the only surviving victim of a gruesome murder when she was only 5. There are hints of the mystic throughout the story, but what else would one expect of such a place setting. Barry's storytelling voice draws one in and wraps one in a blanket of suspended belief.
If you are a fan of Sarah Addison Allen, you're going to like Barry's taletelling.
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