Review - Hoodoo House by Peter E. Fenton
Hoodoo House
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Volume 2 of Declan Hunt Mysteries
Tags: Mystery Private Eyes
Posted in Book Reviews on April 8, 2026
Declan and Charlie are asked to find a laptop that went missing from Hoodoo House, an isolated writer’s retreat, after its owner was found dead. The computer stores a potentially valuable manuscript, and some videos that could be very damaging if they ever got out. It turns out the detectives aren’t the only ones looking for the laptop, and finding it is only the beginning of their troubles. Meanwhile, both men are questioning their resolve to keep their relationship “strictly business.”
This second book of the Declan Hunt Mysteries sets the detective and his assistant Charlie off on a new case. You’d be advised to read the first book before this one to get the background on Declan and Charlie as well as a few of the secondary characters that carry over from the introductory volume. There’s a whiff of a behind-the-scenes villain common to these first two books, but it’s not strong enough to keep you from reading this story as a stand-alone.
The narration switches between Declan, Charlie and a young teenager named Henry, who lives at Hoodoo House with the elderly caretaker. Henry is a precocious and rambunctious thirteen year-old with perhaps a slight attention deficit. He becomes key to helping Charlie and Declan get to the bottom of the mysteries of Hoodoo House.
The signs were there in the first book that Declan had some inner demons, and we get a bit more insight in this story about how he is trying to deal with them. The evolution of Declan and Charlie’s relationship is no surprise. We’ll have to see where it goes over the coming installments of the series.
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