title: Secondhand Spirits: A Witchcraft Mystery
author:  Juliet Blackwell 
description: <b>Juliet Blackwell </b>is the pseudonym for the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of the Haunted Home Renovation Mystery series. She also writes the Witchcraft Mystery seriesand, together with her sister, wrote the Art Lovers Mystery series as Hailey Lind. The first in the series, <i>Feint of Art</i>, was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. She is also the author of the novels <i>Letters from Paris</i> and <i>The Paris Key. </i>As owner of her own faux-finish and design studio, the author has spent many days and nights on construction sites renovating beautiful historic homes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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  > STRONG SPIRITS
  
  
  By
  
  
  Alice Duncan
  
  
  Book 1 in the Spirits Series  
    
  
  
  Chapter One  
  
  
  It all started with my aunt Viola’s Ouija Board. It was an old one, and sort
  of shabby. I guess Mrs. Kincaid had been using it ever since she bought it in
  ‘03 when they first came out, but she claimed it still worked.
  
  
  Whether it worked or not, Mrs. Kincaid gave it to Aunt Vi after her own
  custom-made one with a large emerald in the center arrived from overseas. Mrs.
  Kincaid claimed it had been made by a Gypsy woman in Rumania but I had my
  doubts then, and I have my doubts now. After all, Mrs. Kincaid was rich, and
  we all know how gullible some rich people are. I suppose I should amend that
  to read that I know how gullible some rich people are. Lord knows, I’ve had
  plenty of experience in gulling them.
  
  
  On the other hand, my aunt Viola Gumm, lik