Witchcraft and vintage go together in this neat little package
Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, CA covers a twenty-block stretch from Golden Gate Park to Market street and includes the famous Haight-Ashbury thrifting district in San Francisco, CA. The area is a thrifter and vintage lovers paradise.
Locals call the area “the Haight”. It is divided into two portions, Upper and Lower. The Upper Haight areas is trendier and upscale, while Lower Haight is grittier.
In Juliet Blackwell’s Secondhand Spirits: A witchcraft mystery, Love the vintage not the ghosts, vintagely inspired main character Lily Ivory opens a trendy vintage clothing shop in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco. Lily choses San Fran. because she believes she’ll have better opportunity to hide her “witchiness”. (Something about whimsy, magic and witchery, I guess go hand and hand.) The real enjoyment of this book begins when just as Lily settles in spiritually and stylistically advising her customers and enjoying the eclectic neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury, a client is murdered and children begin disappearing from the Bay area!
Okay, I know, if you’re a reader your mouth should be salivating with anticipation right about now….
On with the synopsis-
Lily believes bad phantoms are behind it. So she must keep her witching ways secret as she attempts to stop the phantom. The magical adventure begins amongst a backdrop of hip vintage….
