{"id":31846,"date":"2025-04-29T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=31846"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:34:06","slug":"review-dead-post-society-by-diane-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/29\/review-dead-post-society-by-diane-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \ud83d\udd0d Dead Post Society by Diane Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-31846\" data-postid=\"31846\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-31846 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_4dde272 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top gutter-narrow tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_q3tz272 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_91qk272 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"1049\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dead-post-society-diane-kelly.jpg?resize=640%2C1049&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-31847\" title=\"dead-post-society-diane-kelly\" alt=\"dead-post-society-diane-kelly\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dead-post-society-diane-kelly.jpg?w=915&amp;ssl=1 915w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dead-post-society-diane-kelly.jpg?resize=183%2C300&amp;ssl=1 183w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dead-post-society-diane-kelly.jpg?resize=625%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 625w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dead-post-society-diane-kelly.jpg?resize=768%2C1259&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/dead-post-society-diane-kelly.jpg?resize=400%2C655&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_0k2k273 customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong><span class=\"a-text-bold\">This year&#8217;s honor roll is killer&#8230;<br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck are no strangers to murder. After all, they\u2019ve encountered corpses on their properties before. But this is the first time they\u2019d decided to take a chance on a property where two suspicious deaths have already occurred. Most buildings on the former boarding school property will be repurposed for an upscale retirement community, but the developer has no use for the headmaster\u2019s house given its violent history. The headmaster and his wife were killed there decades earlier, their deaths remaining unsolved to this day.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Still, it seems a shame to see the beautiful Victorian give way to decay or the wrecking ball, even if many claim the unsettled souls of the victims still wander its halls, seeking retribution and justice. Can Whitney and Buck exorcise the structure\u2019s demons, solve the cold case, and give the building new life? Or will ghosts from the past seek to silence them forever?<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_75y1273 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_irgp273  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25881 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-recommends-banner-1.png?resize=296%2C72\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Apr 1, 2025<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong> House Flipper<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Macmillan<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong> Minotaur Books<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $9.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Whitney Whitaker<\/strong> and her cousin, Buck, flip houses in the Nashville, Tennessee area. Whitney falls in love with a Victorian house that served as the headmaster\u2019s home on the grounds of what was an exclusive boarding school. Whitney has so many ideas on how they could fix this house up, so she and Buck decide to go forward with the project even after learning that two people lost their lives in the home. Whitney begins researching the suspicious deaths, but it quickly becomes clear that someone wants old history to remain in the past. Whitney is determined to protect the reputation of the house, but will she need to fight for her own life in the process?<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dead Post Society<\/strong> is the seventh in the<em> House-Flipper<\/em> series. I\u2019ve read the two books prior to this one, but not the earlier installments, and think each book works well as a standalone. Each book has a nice balance of remodeling projects, sleuthing, and family life. Readers following the series won\u2019t want to miss a development in Whitney\u2019s personal life that occurs in this one. There are a couple of chapters told from the point of view of Whitney\u2019s cat, Sawdust. They are short and cute without being too corny, adding some fun to the book.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The grounds of the abandoned school make a great setting for the book. I appreciate that Whitney is investigating a cold case in this book, and I enjoyed how she combined research with questioning witnesses and suspects to uncover the truth. I didn\u2019t like that she ignored the good advice from her husband, Collin, and put herself into dangerous situations more than once. More interactions between Whitney and Collin and Whitney and Buck would have made the book even better, but the story held my interest and kept me guessing as to the identity of the killer. Fans of the series, as well as fans of Kate Carlisle&#8217;s Fixer Upper Mysteries, will enjoy this intriguing cozy mystery.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Christine<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_dc8g273 customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3GqCtWP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/4cZh0kg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dead-post-society-diane-kelly\/1145317333?ean=9781250359339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">B&amp;N<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/dead-post-society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Diane_Kelly_Dead_Post_Society?id=SwcAEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Google Play<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n            \t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t<\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s honor roll is killer&#8230;Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck are no strangers to murder. 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After all, they\u2019ve encountered corpses on their properties before. But this is the first time they\u2019d decided to take a chance on a property where two suspicious deaths have already occurred. Most buildings on the former boarding school property will be repurposed for an upscale retirement community, but the developer has no use for the headmaster\u2019s house given its violent history. The headmaster and his wife were killed there decades earlier, their deaths remaining unsolved to this day.<br \/><br \/>Still, it seems a shame to see the beautiful Victorian give way to decay or the wrecking ball, even if many claim the unsettled souls of the victims still wander its halls, seeking retribution and justice. Can Whitney and Buck exorcise the structure\u2019s demons, solve the cold case, and give the building new life? Or will ghosts from the past seek to silence them forever?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-recommends-banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Apr 1, 2025<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong> House Flipper<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Macmillan<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong> Minotaur Books<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $9.99<\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Whitney Whitaker<\/strong> and her cousin, Buck, flip houses in the Nashville, Tennessee area. Whitney falls in love with a Victorian house that served as the headmaster\u2019s home on the grounds of what was an exclusive boarding school. Whitney has so many ideas on how they could fix this house up, so she and Buck decide to go forward with the project even after learning that two people lost their lives in the home. Whitney begins researching the suspicious deaths, but it quickly becomes clear that someone wants old history to remain in the past. Whitney is determined to protect the reputation of the house, but will she need to fight for her own life in the process?<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dead Post Society<\/strong> is the seventh in the<em> House-Flipper<\/em> series. I\u2019ve read the two books prior to this one, but not the earlier installments, and think each book works well as a standalone. Each book has a nice balance of remodeling projects, sleuthing, and family life. Readers following the series won\u2019t want to miss a development in Whitney\u2019s personal life that occurs in this one. There are a couple of chapters told from the point of view of Whitney\u2019s cat, Sawdust. They are short and cute without being too corny, adding some fun to the book.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The grounds of the abandoned school make a great setting for the book. I appreciate that Whitney is investigating a cold case in this book, and I enjoyed how she combined research with questioning witnesses and suspects to uncover the truth. I didn\u2019t like that she ignored the good advice from her husband, Collin, and put herself into dangerous situations more than once. More interactions between Whitney and Collin and Whitney and Buck would have made the book even better, but the story held my interest and kept me guessing as to the identity of the killer. Fans of the series, as well as fans of Kate Carlisle's Fixer Upper Mysteries, will enjoy this intriguing cozy mystery.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Christine<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3GqCtWP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/4cZh0kg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/dead-post-society-diane-kelly\/1145317333?ean=9781250359339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/dead-post-society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Diane_Kelly_Dead_Post_Society?id=SwcAEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31852,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31846\/revisions\/31852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}