Help For The Haunted by John Searles

 

Sylvie Mason doesn't live a teenage normal life.  Her parents are ghosthunters, and spend their time giving lectures and going to haunted places to rid them of spirits.  They have fitted up the basement to bring the most disturbed individuals back to the house to stay until they are healed.  Sylvie has a big sister, Rose, and that's her touchstone to normality.

Then one winter night, things explode.  Her parents are called to a deserted church in the middle of a snowstorm.  They take Sylvie with them but that only means that she is the one who discovers their murdered bodies.  Now she and Rose are living by themselves in the house with all their parents' haunted artifacts in the basement.  

Sylvie is determined to find out what happened.  She is the main witness for the crime and she isn't sure she remembers exactly what happened in that dark place.  She also wants to know all the family secrets that were kept from her.  Can she find out the truth?

John Searles writes suspense novels, often with a supernatural overtone.  He was the books editor at Cosmopolitan magazine and his novels are bestsellers.  In Sylvie, he has created a character readers can relate to as she delves into her family's history, determined to find the truths that have been hidden from her.  This book is recommended for suspense readers.