Magnolia Nights, another wonderful mystery from Ashley Farley...

Magnolia Nights by author Ashley Farley is a southern mystery set in the historic district of Charleston, SC. Eleanor Pringle has come back to her childhood home with her little Maltese, Pixie. Ellie has inherited her grandmother’s estate after her death. Fears and long buried memories of living in this house trouble Ellie and she is hoping being here will help her uncover the mystery.
Ellie is happy to see Maddie, the kind housekeeper she remembers from her time there. Maddie advises Ellie to keep her grandmother’s bedroom door open so her spirit will be free to leave. Ellie respects Maddie’s Gullah customs and later has experiences in the house which she feels is due to her grandmother’s spirit still hovering in the house.
Ellie explores the house and prepares to clean out some old things because she may decide to sell the house. She finds a note written by her mother. This starts Ellie on a hunt for her mothers journals or dairies. As she finds pages her mother wrote before her death, Ellie begins to uncover the secrets from the house.
I won’t post spoilers, but there are a couple of twists in the story which brings to light some of the mysteries of Ellie’s childhood. This story is written with emotions of a woman looking for her lost childhood and wanting answers. Will Ellie embrace and be happy with the truths she finds?  A very well written mystery!