Aly Orlean confesses at the top of Erica Wright’s THE MUSEUM OF UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE that she has no idea what it feels like to be dead. However, she knows more than your average person about the occult and the other side, having spent her life in the psychic town of Wyndale, Florida.

It is here where Aly goes about running her unique family business, the Museum of Unusual Occurrence. She also is raising her teenage sister, Merope, and is about to take on the biggest challenge of her life thus far.

"THE MUSEUM OF UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE is a quick and unique read featuring characters who resonate. I hope that Erica Wright plans to do more with Aly, her museum, and the residents of Wyndale in the very near future."

Aly and her only employee come across the body of a young woman lying inside the museum. Twenty-year-old Rose Dempsey appears to have been killed in some ritualistic fashion. If anyone can tap into alternative sources to help solve a murder, it would be the owner of a museum that features the bizarre. Aly not only has local psychics (among others) to assist with this, she also partners somewhat unwillingly with her former classmate, Bud, the nearly seven-foot-tall police chief.

The museum was founded by Aly’s late father in 1968 and features everything from Loch Ness Monster photos to radioactive meteorite fragments. No one looks twice at this place in a town like Wyndale, which makes being able to solve a murder of this kind more difficult as it seems par for the course in this part of Central Florida. The population hovers around 10,000 but can balloon up to 25,000 with all the tourists who travel there looking for some kind of spiritual awakening or merely a walk on the wild side.

Bud informs Aly that Rose had a deadly toxin in her system at the time of her death. Aly reaches out to a former teacher and mentor who specializes in esoteric anthropology. It is with Dr. Patel that Aly shares the ritualistic marks found on Rose’s body to see if she could assist her in identifying the meaning behind it.

In addition to leaning on a psychic via a séance to get answers from the other side, Aly is struggling to juggle her domestic duties. Merope is planning to head to London with her boyfriend, which Aly is not thrilled with, and their wanderlust mother pops in to spend the holidays with them. Meanwhile, the murder case that everyone is talking about begins to take a dark turn, and the guilty party ends up being someone completely unexpected.

THE MUSEUM OF UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE is a quick and unique read featuring characters who resonate. I hope that Erica Wright plans to do more with Aly, her museum, and the residents of Wyndale in the very near future.