Miss Cassidy returns to nineteenth-century Singapore to help solve another dazzling supernatural mystery in this follow-up to the award-winning novel that The Guardian called a “classic-in-waiting.”

When Letty Ingram arrives in Singapore in 1906, she is an enigma even unto herself. To the residents of the small Scottish village where she lives, she is a wealthy, half-Malay recluse who emerges from her home only for walks with her great beast of a hound. To Letty, she is a woman trying to lift a curse that causes her lose consciousness and wake up in strange places—sometimes, with blood on her hands—and no memory of what occurred.

Letty has traveled across the world in hopes that the renowned medium Madam Kay can help her break the curse, but Letty is a mystery of tangled magics the likes of which Madam Kay and the rest of her supernaturally gifted family have never seen. Fortunately, the Kays know an expert with even more insight into otherworldly matters than they do: the formidable Miss Leda Cassidy.

But even Miss Cassidy finds Letty to be a puzzle, one that pulls a fog over her memories as well. As she dives deeper into Letty’s past and find it unexpectedly intertwined with her own, Miss Cassidy begins to realize that if she’s going to free Letty from her curse, she’s going to have to take on an ancient foe: the terrifying jungle spirit known as the Bungadarah.

Letty Ingram, a mysterious woman even to herself, arrives in 1906 Singapore in search of help from the renowned medium Madame Kay. As the Kay sisters search for ways to help Letty their father, and then Miss Cassidy, become involved in a mystery that spans the world over several decades and involves god and goddesses from several pantheons.

The first book, The Formidable Miss Cassidy, was a pretty straightforward ghost mystery with a bit of Western supernatural beings tossed in. This current book is a bit more complex with a plot that skips back and forth in time as well as characters that slip in and out of other dimensions. I really like the characters, and the fact we can look forward to a third book focusing on Mr Kay is something I look forward to. That said, I will admit I had a bit of difficulty understanding the nuances of the various demons, demigods, and gods that were an integral part of Letty’s story as I am not as familiar with folklore of the East as I am with the West. Even though I recognized only a few of them I still found the story compelling as we learn more about Letty and how she and Miss Cassidy are connected. As noted, I look forward to the next book. Recommended ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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