title: If Walls Could Talk (Haunted Home Renovation Mysteries)
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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  the product of the author’s Imagination or are used fictitiously, and any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events
  or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
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  ALSO BY C. J. BOX
  
  WINTERKILL  
  
  
  SAVAGE RUN  
  
  
  OPEN SEASON
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [**6**](TrophyHunt-toc.html#TOC-8)
  
   **W** E’RE SUPPOSED TO STAY in my room,” Jessica Logue told Lucy Pickett and
  Hailey Bond. “My dad says we need to stay out of those old buildings out back.
  He says they’re unsafe for us to play in.”
  
  Lucy and Hailey protested. One of the things the girls loved was exploring the
  old outbuildings in the thick trees behind the house. It was spooky back
  there, and dark.
  
  “Can’t we play hide-and-seek?” Lucy asked.
  
  “That’s what my dad said,” Jessica shrugged. “He said he’s afraid the
  buildings might collapse when we’re playing in 