The Carriage House

The Carriage House by Neggers, Carla. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780778315186.

Fun and a little hard work. Thats all Tess Haviland has in mind when Ike Grantham pays her for her graphic design work on the run-down nineteenth-century carriage house on Bostons North Shore. Then Ike disappears and Tess finds herself with much more than a simple weekend project to get her out of the city. Its not just the rumors that the carriage house is haunted—its the neighbors: six-year-old Dolly Thorne, her reclusive babysitter, Harley Beckett…and especially Dollys father, Andrew Thorne, who has his own ideas about why Tess has turned up next door. But when Tess discovers a human skeleton in her dirt cellar, she begins to ask questions about the history of the carriage house, the untimely death of Andrews wife…and Ikes disappearance. Questions a desperate killer wants to silence before the truth reveals that someone got away with murder.