Title: Black Opal Author: Catie Rhodes Genre: Paranormal Mystery Length: Novella First, I should say that Catie and I both have the same publisher. But I don’t think it’s affected my review because I loved, loved, loved this book. Catie is billing it as a novella, and it clocks in around 50,000 words. But it’s a completely satisfying story and didn’t seem “short” to me at all. Unwilling medium Peri Jean Mace is back in action. [Tweet this!] This time she’s on her boyfriend’s home turf, at his family mansion in South Louisiana, and Peri Jean is feeling out of her element. And then a ghost who won’t take “no” for an answer clamors for her attention, and Peri Jean must follow the clues to find a killer. The book is tightly paced. The characters are living and breathing and more importantly, growing. (I hate it when characters just do the make the damn mistakes book after book after book – it’s too much like real life and I read to escape. It’s also boring). …