Goodreads Doesn't Have It, Data Migration: Haunted Snohomish
Very delicately haunted, in a pleasant fashion. Could be spookier.
I appreciated the political nuance in mentioning that a police officer frequented the brothel under the guise of deniability where the trafficked girl was killed. A haunting scenario in itself. Several safety concerns, including general meaninglessness in an evolving town with generically named crossroads. The irony of the "propertied class" meaning nothing back in the day, and just the haunted whistling trees to console a soul rotting from emptiness on Fiddler's Bluff. And the rot of injustice behind purple glasses, an odd choice of color for a prison. That these trapped souls were kept behind bars while their hypocritical keepers frequented brothels only to kill those who attempted to run away from them is an energy that in itself is unforgivable and has been collapsed in time as a final injustice.
I think the spookiest one was the man whose other half was caught off in the saw mill and the man wearing all brown trying to show the person something. That one sounds like it actually happened. With really bad crimes I am certain there is trapped emotion rotting the place from the inside out, even if it is just the repressed guilt of those lying about their innocence. It seeps into everything they do, leaving a trace. And thus the injustice continues to speak, moving the perpetrator's hands.
Very spooky indeed.