Griffith Tavern by Rebecca Patrick-Howard is the 2nd book in the Taryn's Camera series of ghost stories/mysteries. The first book, Windwood Farm, was decently written and an interesting story but could have used a more professional editing job. This book was better edited and the abrupt and confusing scene changes in the first book were pleasantly missing.
In Griffith Tavern Taryn's been hired to do a painting of an old tavern and stage coach inn using her creativity to express how the place would look if fully restored. Her clients hope the picture will help them raise the money to purchase the property and properly restore the building. Fairly quickly Taryn, a sensitive, begins to experience ghostly activity and the rest of the story is about her using the clues she is given during this rather varied activity (dreams, sightings and images in the pictures she's taken with her camera) to research and piece together what the ghost is trying to tell her.
As in Windwood Farm, there is a more modern mystery that also comes in to play but that is, in my opinion, just as superfluous in this story as it was in the first one. Having said that the little bit of twist relating to both mysteries and revealed at the end is kind of cute.
On the whole I had a great time reading this book and easily finished it in 24 hours. It is just spooky enough to be a good ghost story but not so disturbing to make it a horror novel.
People who like this book would probably enjoy Heather Graham's novels.
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