Jon Michael Varese

Congratulations Jon Varese on a thoroughly enjoyable debut novel! Varese takes the reader on a journey from Boston, Massachusetts through to the swamp lands of New Orleans as we follow the main character, Edward Moody and his companion Joseph Winter as they travel through the post-civil war America in search of the elusive Isabelle.

The Spirit Photographer is a highly entertaining Southern gothic mystery novel that successfully blends fact with fiction. Varese has created dynamic characters who change and grow as the story unfolds although I would’ve like to have known more about Moody’s reason for creating spirit photography.

I look forward to reading Jon Varese’s next novel !… (mais)

The Civil War may be over, but it has left a lot of women mourning husbands and sons. This has seen an increase in spiritualism. And in Boston, there is a man, Edward Moody that is said to be able to take your picture and you dearly departed will appear as a ghost in the picture. Despite many people proclaiming he's a fake, so far no one has been able to expose him as a fraud. However, when he's taking the photographs that should show the ghost of the dead son to an abolitionist senator instead of boy there is a beautiful woman in the photograph, a woman Edward recognizes...

READ THE REST OF THE REVIEW OVER AT FRESH FICTION!… (mais)