There was a cloying scent in the still air, like lilies wilting by green water." Violet begins to realize the girl was murdered and wants the killer exposed. "Long translucent hair drifted as if the girl were underwater. The impatient dead girl materializes on the other side of a train window before Violet even arrives. But at a country house party, a real ghost shows up, and only Violet can see her. She knows her mother's tricks, so naturally she doesn't believe in ghosts. Violet has to sneak laudanum into the clients' drinks, hide hairpins in seance rooms during the wee hours, and strap bellows under her skirts so she can produce mysterious breezes. Violet Willoughby, the heroine of Haunting Violet is the sixteen-year-old daughter of a woman who makes her living as a fake spiritualist in Victorian England.
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