The sequel to Anna Dressed in Blood with all the heart-thumping suspense and clever quips you would expect from main character Cas and his friends. The ghost girl, Anna saved ghost-hunter Cas and his friends in the first book by dragging the voodoo monster, Obeahman, down into Hell. But now she’s reappearing in Cas’ dreams and in his room and her voice is coming from other ghosts. Cas realizes she is being tortured and he’s determined to rescue her despite all advice to the contrary. This sequel takes Cas and his friends to Britain and explains the creation of the athame and Cas’ connection to it. 
Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.
He inherited this job from his father as well as Dad’s deadly athame, after his father was killed by a ghost. Cas and his mom and their spirit-sniffing cat travel the country following local legends and destroying the murderous dead. Cas doesn’t have time to worry about what he’ll do next year when he graduates from high school or to make friends. He just wants to learn more, grow stronger and avenge his father.
Following a local legend of a ghost called Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects things to go as usual: track, hunt and kill the ghost. What he finds instead is a spirit of a girl trapeed in a curse and rage. A powerful ghost like nothing he’s ever faced, Anna has killed every person who has dared step into her Victorian home.
Cas follows some local teens to Anna’s house and is tricked into confronting her before he is ready. Yet she doesn’t kill him. Why? She did kill one of the other teens and now Cas has to race against time to figure out where Anna’s power comes from, why she didn’t kill him, how to save his new friends from Anna and why he has this overwhelming since of doom.
This book is full of weird snippets of history and I loved it. There is a lot of information in this book on ghosts, bizarre people and places, strange happenings, and just weird things that occurred in America’s history; things you aren’t told about in history books. All the segments are pretty brief so if you want more information on a topic you are going to have to find it elsewhere. But this book gives you a good overview on a lot of stuff. It is organized very well with nice concise chapters and very readable text. I think kids will find it fascinating. I know there are several things I want to know more about. I loved finding out that both Reagan and Carter saw UFOs, that there’s a cat haunting the U.S. Capital, and that George Washington was not our first president (he was our 9th)! I’m definitely going to have to read up on that one!