Paula Munier: Home at Night
Mercy & Elvis #5
This is a great Halloween read. You’d think mystery fiction would be more littered with great Halloween reads, but there really aren’t that many. Munier also has a theme, as she always does, and the theme of this novel is “home,” the meaning of it and the finding of it. Her series centers on Mercy Carr, a veteran of the Afghan war, as is her dog, Elvis. The story opens with a young Mercy Carr encountering a ghost like figure at an old, abandoned house in town. The woman who had owned it was a well known poet, and one of her more famous poems is a Halloween verse for children.
