The Unquiet dead, by Stacie Murphy, is the second in the Amelia Matthews series. I loved the first one, Deadly Fortune, and this second Gilded Age New York mystery is just as good.

Amelia is a psychic, working in a gambling establishment that also fulfills other vices. She is still recovering after her stay in the notorious Blackwell prison, and trying to control her psychic gift – which more often seems like a curse. She has no interest in investigating yet another murder but when Miles, the fifteen year old son of a Black waiter who works with her and her brother Jonas is accused of the murder of a six year old girl, Amelia has to become involved. Especially when it is revealed Ginny Holloway was not the first child to go missing.

The investigation brings her to the Polish community of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in close contact with Peter Rhodes, a reporter, and back in touch with Andrew Cavanaugh.

The mystery is great. Murphy does a wonderful job with the setting. Like Anne Perry and Victoria Thompson, she perfectly delineates the entitlement and hypocrisy of the upper class. Both Amelia are believable people. The supernatural element is not as front and center as it was in the first book but is still an important element.

Highly Recommended.