What lurks "Behind the Closet Door?"

You can't beat a good detective story, right?

How about one set in the Wildwood of the late-1970s, with familiar landmarks and nostalgia setting the background for a tale of murder, mystery, and the paranormal?

Christopher Pinto's new book, "Murder Behind The Closet Door," has all of the above, and a whole lot more.

The story centers around Heather, a young woman just about to begin a career as a marketing executive at an amusement pier on the Boardwalk, and the strange happenings that begin after she moves into a 70-year-old rooming house.

I won't give anything else away, except that the story is filled with many twists, turns, and surprises. It's a great read for Wildwood/Jersey Shore enthusiasts, those interested in the paranormal, or anyone just looking for a great story.

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From the book's official description:

A dilapidated house with an evil secret in the basement. An auto-wrecking yard with the devious, rusted remains of a murderer's getaway car. An unsolved bank robbery with hundreds of thousands of dollars never found. A detective trying to solve an age old murder before his ticker runs out. A slow, agonizing death for an unfortunate victim and his soul reaching from beyond...

"Murder Behind The Closet Door" is a murder mystery ghost story that keeps you engaged and guessing from the first paragraph. Creepy, riveting, this story reveals another existence, one just beyond our own, where the occult and the paranormal meet reality and everyday people find themselves swept into very extraordinary circumstances.

The story is set in Ocean City and Wildwood, NJ during the late 1970s (with flashbacks to the '30s & '50s), and centers around a young woman who begins her career marketing an amusement pier on the world-famous Wildwood Boardwalk. Just as Heather's adult life really begins to blossom, her torment begins.

Not long after moving into a 70 year-old rooming house, Heather's mundane life takes an uncontrolled turn toward insanity. Although she refuses to acknowledge her ghost, a mysterious entity begins to taunt her, an entity impetuously determined to contact her through her bedroom closet. At first these mild encounters are merely disturbing....

Aspirations of a life of quaint mediocrity vanish as she and her friends try to discover the motives of her tormentor, finding that the truths in which she believed her entire life had been nothing but an elaborate veneer. As Heather falls deeper into the mystery, she finds the physical world around her is much stranger - and more terrifying - than she could ever have imagined.

Note: This murder mystery/ghost story deals with adult themes and language, and is not intended for children.