NetGalley: Abby's Fire A Mt. Prospect Mystery by Corinne Malcolm Ibeling & R.I.Partridge

Publisher: Black Rose Publishing

Published: 10/12/23

Pages: 275

Genre: Mystery/Paranormal

Review: NetGalley and Publisher

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After a fire destroys her home, Abby Bennett emerges from the hospital horribly scarred. Her husband has abandoned her, and her two little boys are—gone. Determined to reclaim her life and get her boys back, Abby returns to her hometown in Iowa. With the help of a reclusive neighbor, Jack, she begins renovating her sister’s rental property. But the old cottage has a tragic past—a grisly unsolved murder. When Abby sees images of the victims—a mother and her children—in a mirror above the fireplace, she realizes it holds the key to solving the decades-old mystery. As Abby embarks on a quest to unmask the murderer, she learns that evil from the past still has the power to destroy. Will she sacrifice everything she’s worked so hard for to set right an old wrong?

“I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.” Overall, it is a decent book; it talks a lot about what Abby eats for lunch. So I kept hoping it would lead up to something outstanding, but it just touched the surface. I felt since it brought it up so much that, just maybe, it could have had something to do with the story. Abby was in a fire, and she has finally gotten out of the hospital and is living with her sister. She takes on the task of fixing up the rental her sister wants to rent out. It was left a mess, and it has a past. As Abby learns how to fix it up, she finds a possible relationship with Jack, who has been through some things the same as her, from ghostly stuff within the house's walls to solving a murder that occurred 60 years ago.

Abby tries to do good and comes to terms with her past. 

I can understand why no one told Abby the truth, as she needed to come to terms with the answers given to her. I giggled at the wallpaper fiasco as I had never done it, but it didn't sound easy. I give her props on doing it. 

It feels as though something was missing in making this book 

5 stars, but I just can't put my finger on it. Later, it will come to me. I did like the paranormal aspect and how tough Abby ended up becoming.