Ghost Moon (Bone Island Trilogy)

Description

Reclusive collector Cutter Merlin is seldom seen in Key West—lately, not at all. Officer Liam Beckett visits Merlin's curious house and discovers the gentleman in his study. In his death grip: a volume of occult lore and a reliquary. His eyes are wide with fright, his mouth a horrified rictus where spiders now dwell.

Kelsey Donovan returns to the old house to catalog her estranged grandfather's collection of artifacts and antiquities, vowing to see his treasures divested properly. But she cannot ignore the sense that she's being watched, the reports of malevolent black figures, the pervasive smell of death.

Is the Merlin house haunted, even cursed? Liam knows well that some ghost stories are true and he swears to protect Kelsey. But there are forces at work for whom one more life is a pittance to pay for their deepest desire….

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Customer Reviews

Ghost Series Rocks!!!
Heather's series of "Ghost" books is amazing. I looked forward to, and actually, CRAVED the next book!! Key West is a place of mystery, lore, and love.I love that she includes historical background on the Key's,and those who have lived and died there, in addition to the wonderful and amazing ghosts, and ghost stories that thrive there. I'm so sorry the trilogy has reached the end..but after all the trials and tribulations of all the heroes and heroines..Bartholamew finally ended up the winner! I would still, so love to hear the story of "The Lady in White" before she met her "privateer" in death.

2010-09-05 (johnstown, pa) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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ghost moon by heather graham
MY BOOK WAS IN REAL GOOD SHAPE. I WILL BE BURYING MORE FROM THIS SELLER. THE PACKAGE WAS SO WELL DONE THE BOX WAS NOT EVEN CRUSHED.

2010-09-03 (Thomasville,NC) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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exciting suspenseful romantic fantasy
Key West Police Detective Liam Beckett visits old Cutter Merlin to see if the eccentric is okay. He finds Cutter dead with a spider web on him and a spider in his mouth; his face was that of someone frightened to death as the elderly man gripped the occult tome In Defense of Dark Magick and a reliquary and a little gold casket.

Liam calls Cutter's granddaughter Kelsey Donovan informing her of Cutter's death. She returns from California to a place she prefers never to go; her childhood home. There her mother died in an accident and her father yanked her from this place he hated and feared. Kate plans to take care of her late grandfather's estate and leave soonest as the memories are haunting.

The neighbors believe the Merlin house is actually haunted. There are also rumors of hidden treasure somewhere on the estate. Obviously someone believes in the latter cache as a killing occurs on the Donovan property as well as attempted murder. Detective Liam Beckett and Kelsey team up trying to catch a predator while also struggling with their attraction for each other.

The third ghostly Bone Island romantic fantasy (see Ghost Night and Ghost Shadow) is an exciting suspense thriller. The taut story line grips the audience when the spider comes out of the mouth of Cutter and never slows down as a psychopath haunts the lead couple who wonder whether Cutter died from a self induced heart attack caused by his fear of bumps in the night or a homicidal human haunting his house. That wondering will keep readers up late.

Harriet Klausner

2010-09-03 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Ghost Night (Bone Island Trilogy)

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Description

A slasher movie turns real when two young actors are brutally murdered on a remote island film set. Their severed heads and arms are posed in macabre homage to a nineteenth-century pirate massacre.

Two years later, survivor Vanessa Loren is drawn back to South Bimini by a documentary being made about the storied region. Filmmaker Sean O'Hara aches to see how the unsolved crime haunts her…and Sean knows more than a little about ghosts.

Lured by visions of a spectral figurehead, Vanessa discovers authentic pirate treasures that only deepen the mystery. Are the murders the work of modern-day marauders, the Bermuda Triangle or a deadly paranormal echo of the island's violent history? As Vanessa and Sean grow closer, the killer prepares to resume the slaughter…unless the dead can intervene.

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Customer Reviews

Great Suspense Read
This book had great suspense, romance and characters. It kept my interest right from the start. Looking forward to reading the rest of Heather's Bone Island Trilogy.

2010-09-04 (Kathleen, GA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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tense paranormal romantic suspense
On Haunt Island near Bimini, writer Vanessa Loren is part of a crew filming a low-budget horror movie. As they complete the final wrap, someone gruesomely murders two actors Georgia Dare and Travis Glenn. Their heads are decapitated and posed in a frightening manner in the sand. The case is unsolved. For the next two years, Vanessa remains frightened and unable to sleep as she suffers nightmares from the grisly scene she saw on the Bahamas' island beach.

Filmmaker Sean O'Hara hires Vanessa to work on a documentary he is filming in the area where the cold case homicides that haunt her occurred. Hoping to get closure, she agrees. Sean can see ghosts and Vanessa fall in love, but a deranged killer stalks them anxiously waiting for a rerun of what happened two years ago.

The second Bone Island paranormal romantic suspense (see Ghost Shadow) is a delightful thriller due to the ghosts feeling genuine. The lead couple is a wonderful duet whose hope for a Hollywood ending is in trouble from a slasher (everyone knows what happens in a slasher flick). Ghost Night is tense entertainment as a killer looks forward to adding a pair in love to the count of victims.

Harriet Klausner

2010-07-28 | Helpful Votes: 13 | Rating: 5

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Ghost Shadow (The Bone Island Trilogy)

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There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retribution…vengeance…to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence.

Katie O'Hara is one who can.

As she's drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katie must uncover the truth: could David Beckett really be guilty of his fiancée's murder?

Worse—the body count's rising on the Island of Bones, andthe dead seem to be reenacting some macabre tableaux from history. The danger is increasing by the moment—especially as Katie finds herself irresistibly drawn to David, who may be responsible for more than just one killing….

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Customer Reviews

Fun read!
Katie sees dead people. She talks to them too.
Katie works at her uncle Jamie's pub in Key West.
She runs Katie-okie, the karaoke nights entertainment.

Katie is young and beautiful and loves her life in Key West.
One of her best friends is Bartholomew, who just happens to be a
ghost. When her co-worker Clarinda, and all of the customers at O'Hara's
pub she her talking to "herself", she tries to convince them she
is singing along with her music. Only her brother knows about Katie's
gift of seeing ghosts, and he is in denial, as well as out of town.

When a failed business venture brings an old friend of her brothers back
to town. Things begin to get interesting. David had once been a suspect in a murder
case. One that involved his then fiance, or to be more precise, his ex.

Suddenly, there is another murder...and things start getting crazy.
Katie and Bartholomew get caught up in trying to find the murderer.

This was a fun read. It wes quick and easy and I loved Bartholomew
most, out of all of the ghosts. And believe mer there were a few.
Did I mention that Bartholomew was the ghost of a hanged pirate?
Oops! I meant to say privateer...

2010-09-05 | ~have book~will read~ (SWPA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Great Suspense and Love story
I loved this book and the author. Heather Graham is one of my favorite authors. I read one of her books called Blood Red another great book. I just got finished with reading Night Moves...another great book. I could not put it down.
I would advise of reading all the books to come in The Bone Trilogy.

I love the realtonship between Kate and David. I love Bartholomew..He really made me laugh whenever he followed Kate. I Ghost Shadow you think you know who did it and then are very surprised who did it...at least I was thinking it was Tanya's brother...

2010-08-30 (USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Obvious
I have never read Heather Graham before but saw the first two books in this trilogy and picked them up. I really should have started with just one and saved the$$. I think I knew who the murderer was in the first one about four chapters in. I still read the second book and again the plot was obvious and just slung together. I don't think this is a writer for my taste. I like a mystery with more substance less fluff.

2010-08-30 (Franklin,TN) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1

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Not one of Graham's better books
Heather Graham can write some amazing paranormal suspense/romance novels. This is not one of them. It's entertaining enough for a light beach read, or something for reading on the plane or while you're having your hair done or something like that, but I wouldn't go terribly far out of my way to read it. The characters aren't as rounded as they could be and overall the story seems forced - the whole idea seems forced.

Set in Key West, which is presented as a party town with a tourist affliction, the book is filled with characters that could have been fun and quirky - instead they were just token characters. The "girl who sees ghosts;" the "old beach bum." Etc. Not to mention the "returning son, did he or didn't he kill his fiancee umpteen years ago?" which is opened again when more killings start up.

I like Graham's novels when they provide a good story - this one I was less than impressed with. I will likely follow the rest of the trilogy to see where she takes it, but I may follow it through the library rather than through buying the books.

2010-08-26 | Obsessive bibliophile (Athens, GA USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3

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A Wonderful, Atmospheric Romantic Thriller in Key West
This was an enjoyable suspenseful romance with a touch of the paranormal thrown in. I thought that the book was well written and it sucked me in right away. I really liked the characters. Katie is a strong heroine, but she isn't stupid. She does make a few ill-advised decisions, such as taking walks at night without protection, but she follows good advice and doesn't get herself into too much trouble like most other romance heroines. Katie is smart, spunky and independent. She owns a successful business with her Katie-oke company, a karaoke enterprise that she runs in her uncle's bar, owns her old family home and doesn't need a man - but that doesn't mean that she doesn't want one. I thought she was a very good balance of a strong, single woman who is a true partner in a relationship with a man like David Beckett. David is a veteran turned nature-photographer with quick reflexes and a keen, observant eye. There is just something about Katie that he responds to right away and they find themselves caught up in a whirlwind romance at the worst possible time - in the middle of a killing spree where David is still the prime suspect.

The other characters are just as vivid and lively. I would have to say that my favorite character in the book is Bartholomew, the ghost of an old-fashioned privateer who is a true gentlemen. He added quite a bit of color and fun to the book, as well as some great advice (which, naturally Katie ignored most of the time). I wish that more ghosts had been involved as real, solid characters in this book, but Bartholomew is pretty much it. Katie sees a lot of ghosts in the book - including all of the murder victims - but they are rather shadowy versions of themselves and don't remember anything that would help Katie solve the crimes. The idea behind this is that you have to get used to being a ghost and adjusted to the world around you and your limitations. For example, Bartholomew was killed over 200 years ago and he has just barely worked up the power to push the button to turn the coffee on in the morning. I thought that the paranormal touches where a nice addition to this mystery romance and it made me pick up this book whereas I probably would have given it a pass otherwise. I wish that the author had done a bit more with the ghosts and their storylines so that Katie was helping them come to some sort of peace or helping them move on, but I was satisfied with what I got.

While the story is interesting, there are a limited number of suspects who could have committed the crimes and the author presents them all as viable suspects at one time or another. I found myself jumping around from suspect to suspect, convinced it was the cousin, then the brother, then the missing man. Of course, I was wrong with who the real identity of the killer was, but I at least got the motive right! While the mystery was good, the characters were great and the book was well written, the true star of this book is the location of Key West itself. I loved all of the atmospheric details that the author included about the houses, the people, the tourists, the famous people who used to live there, Key West's history, the food, the bars, the beaches - I felt like I was really there! There are some wonderful scenes in regards to Fantasy Fest and what people dress up as. Details of costumes, body painting, traffic snags, the muggy heat and just crazy things that happen during this time are all included in the book and really made this story a lot of fun! I knew next to nothing about Key West before I read this book, but now I know a great deal about its history and what makes this location so famous - and infamous! This loving attention to location details really elevated the book into something special and memorable for me. I will definitely check out the other books in the series!

2010-08-25 (Huntington Beach, CA United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Suspicious (Silhouette Romantic Suspense)

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Description

Big-city lawyer Lorena Fortier's suspicions about her father's death brought her to a small Florida town nestled in the Everglades. Then whoever--or whatever--had killerd her father started claiming more victims, and

AS they faced danger more menacing than any they had ever imagined, Lorena needed to put her life in Jesse's hands. could she do the same with her heart and hope that a man who had once loved and lost would learn to love again...before time ran out?

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Customer Reviews

Incrediable
I just started reading this book but already hooked. I love the way this author writes..

2010-08-30 (USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Good book with unlikely bad guy
I just recently starting reading Graham's books and am a fan now. This was the second book I've read on my Kindle. Good mix of suspense and mystery mixed with love and passion. Very well developed characters. I've never read anything with a plot line about genetically engineered alligators so this was an interesting piece of fiction. The story kept me guessing and had what I considered to be an unlikely "bad guy" which was nice - not predictable. Good swift pace kept my interest. Recommended.

2009-01-04 | JLP Booklover (DFW, Texas) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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HIGHLY ENTERTAINING MYSTERY
This would be a great follow-up to Lake Placid.
We get to make a trek to the Everglades [have only been able to picture it after some scenes from CSI:Miami]where we get to meet the Native American Seminoles and Miccosukee Indian police in the person of Jesse Crane, who's wife was killed.

Now you want to talk about a jerk, Lorena Fortier[blonde bombshell] sure qulifies. Granted she was on a mission but had not given enough thought to who she was putting in jeapordy.

The great scene of the black eyed Alligator and Billy Ray Hare kind of makes your hair stand on end.

When Lorena finally gets to Harry's Alligator Farm and Museum she meets her co-workers Dr. Michael Preston [oh to get into his office and notes] - Harry, the owner, Jack Pine, a tall, well-muscled Seminole and Hugh Humphrey, a wiry blond handler[of the gators] from Australia -- and a tall, white haired man talking to them, Dr. Thiessen, a local vet and his helper, John Smith, extraordinarilly big. And there was Sally Dickerson, the head cashier and bookkeeper, she was always making up to Jesse.

With two friends of Jesse's shot to death, execution style and having to look for Billy Ray, the Miami-Dade homicide detective, Lars Garcia was in charge of the shooting case and someone Jesse had gone to college with, things were heating up.

Suddenly the incidents were looking suspicious - what did Lorena know and what was she looking for? Who was responsible for her father's death?
But first she had to find evidence that he was murdered. Who would believe her?

Jesse and Lars were trying to pull together the evidence that would make sense. Where did these giant Alligators come from? Lorena almost met one face to face.

Who could have enough money to make the evidence disappear? Excellentlly told tale - another female who makes nothing of bed hoping. Love? yeah, right.

Still a great read once you get past the "romance"?

2006-11-14 | abayyan (Milan, Michigan United States) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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More gene manipulation
Lorena Fortier is a lawyer who is going under cover to find out who killed her father. Nobody believes he was murdered, but she has found an e-mail among his effects that makes her believe someone killed him for his research. Now she is acting as an RN at a crocodile farm.

Jesse Crane is half Seminole and the law in his part of the Everglades. I found he liked himself alittle to much. The descriptions of his macho virile self were abit over the top. He struck me as abit of a jerk.

Both characters were slightly larger than life. And certainly had very good self images. A little more modesty would have been nice.Suddenly several deaths occur. Maybe drug related or not. One couple is killed at their home at night and Jesse knows they are upstanding people.

Finally, both are convinced that enhanced reptiles are loose in the glades and have killed man. What about the people who have been shot? Is someone killing people to hide the evidence?

Fairly good suspense, so-so romance, but it is a short book. Not to bad a read at all.

2006-01-13 | avid reader (Dawson, GA USA) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 3

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A Fast Paced Romantic Suspense!!!
Ms. Graham has again used Florida for the setting of her latest romantic suspense. Through her descpitive writing you will feel as if you are standing right along side with the characters of the book.

Lorena has come to the Everglades to find out who killed her father. She gets a job at an alligator farm. She has no idea that she has just set up home in a vipers nest of secrets and danger. She also doesn't realize that she is in more danger that she could ever imagine. Especially when bodies starts piling up among the locals. Who is killing them and why? Could it have anything to do with her fathers research?

Jesse Crane is a cop who has returned to his Everglades home after the murder of his wife. Here he does what he can to protect the people that make the dangerous but beautiful Everglades home. So when he meets the beautiful but sassy Lorena for the first time, sparks fly. When he finds out that she is hiding a secret the more he wants to get to know her and protect her. Will he be able to find out what is going on before a rogue gator, and a murdered that walks upright manages to silence Lorena before he can uncover her secret?

This was a very good read. Ms. Graham has managed to include a lot into a short read that will enthrall as well as entertain fans of romantic suspense. The interaction between Jesse and Lorena is spicy and entertaining. This is one author that I highly recommend.

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2005-08-23 (Illinois) | Helpful Votes: 18 | Rating: 4

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Haunted

Description

Love is everywhere. . .

When does a gift become a curse?

Matt Stone doesn't believe in ghosts. But there are those who are convinced his home, a historic Virginia estate that dates back to the Revolutionary War, is haunted. Pressured to get at the truth about some strange happenings at Melody House, he agrees to let Harrison Investigations explore the house. But he isn't ready for beautiful, intriguing Darcy Tremayne.

As a paranormal investigator, Darcy has learned to believe in the unbelievable. And she's given Matt fair warning: sometimes people don't like the skeletons she finds. She never dreamed that the warning would apply to herself. For she's about to discover that Melody House holds much more than a simple mystery form the distant past. What it holds is a very real and lethal danger, one that will cast her into a struggle against the worlds of both the living and the dead.

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Customer Reviews

Great haunted house story
I really like Heather Graham's paranormal stories, especially the ones with characters from the fictional Harrison Investigations. While haunted house stories have been done over and over again, Heather Graham puts a different twist to it, which is one of the reasons why it's a great page-turner book. All in all, I highly recommend this book.

2010-08-05 (USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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No one really eats haggis
In The Presence, Toni MacNally and her five best friends rent a Scottish castle to organize dinner theater tours. Suddenly, the real owner Bruce MacNiall, appears and they learn that the little play she wrote for the performances are based on real people from MacNiall's family.
The real Bruce MacNiall is investigating a serial killer that is using his ancestral home as a dumping ground while the Scooby friends continue their performances. It gets really complicated fast. I did learn that no one really eats haggis.
There are two mysteries here, the legend of the original Bruce MacNiall and the identity of the serial killer that is seeking the current Bruce MacNiall's attention.

2010-05-13 | Okra (Ohio) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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My first Heather Graham Read...
and it blew me away! I was a bit hesitant...when I was first referred to the book, it popped up on the Harlequin website, and well, I'm not a big Harlequin fan. But I quickly looked past that, and ordered it. It was a great, thrilling, non-stop read for me. Great characters, and a great plot. I'm not hooked on her books!

2009-12-27 (Atlanta, GA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Perfect
I am into hauntings, vampires, and books that tie a little love story into it all. This was a exceptional book. After reading her first, Ghost Walk, I had to have this one. Like the first, neither dissapointed me. I hightly recommend this book.

2009-06-10 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Loved it!!
This is the fourth book by Heather Graham that I've read regarding her "supernatural" series and I have to say that I like this one the best. It follows a small-town sheriff named Matt Stone who hires a paranormal psychic investigator named Darcy to stay at his southern bed and breakfast when "ghost" activity scares a few maids and houseguests off. He doesn't believe in spirits and thinks Darcy is many things, including a fraud, despite her beauty and demeanor. They don't get a long and the tension between them builds until it hits a cresendo. There is a murder-mystery that is fun to read and try to guess whodunit and overall, the story is enjoyable.

2008-08-25 (St. Louis, MO) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Ghost Walk

Description

Nikki DuMonde's newest employee is standing at the end of her bed at four o'clock in the morning begging for help. It's a joke, right? Besides, as manager of a successful New Orleans haunted-tour company, Nikki doesn't scare easily. But in the light of day, harsh reality sets in as a police officer informs her that Andy was brutally murdered—at the exact time Nikki swears the distraught woman was in her room.

No one believes her except Brent Blackhawk, a paranormal investigator desperately trying to forget his tragic past. Half Irish, half Lakota—and able to communicate with the dead—Brent is used to living in two worlds. But when he realizes the ghost of a slain government agent is also trying to reach out to Nikki, he knows that she, too, must listen to the dead…if she wants to keep living.

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Customer Reviews

I'd certainly read another.
Heather Graham's Ghost Walk is part bodice ripper, part murder mystery, and part ghost story. In fact it has a little bit of everything and should appeal to a large audience, particularly a female audience.

The hero is a psychic involved in hunting murderers with the assistance of the ghosts involved. He is a classic "Heathcliff" type with dark hair, strong "chiseled" features, and a painful past (a wife killed by a stray bullet) and is sure to appeal to anyone who enjoys the Victorians Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights, Mr. Rochester, Jane Eyre, or Mr Darcy, Pride And Prejudice. Though the overt sexual content may not be for everyone--there is more bedroom than withdrawing room behavior here--the plot is fully capable of holding the attention for those who look for more murderous or mysterious than bedroom action in their murder mysteries. The other characters are interesting and believable, and while they provide the author with alternative possibilities for the "guilty," they do have a life of their own, and one comes away with a feeling that they actually have a past and a future outside of the immediate present of which they happen to find themselves a part.

The prose of the story is well produced with well weighed choices of wording, though there was at least one or two overused "ouch" words--acrid being my least favorite--that seemed to find their way into the work. The author manages to create an image of New Orleans that rings true--at least pre-Katrina--and provides the reader with information about the city of New Orleans and its heritage without being overtly pedantic. I'd definitely like to see what's left of it after reading the book. There is a well engineered beginning, middle and end, and while the outcome is not totally unpredictable, it provides a satisfying denouement on all fronts: the romance, mystery and macabre tales. The clues are there for the astute reader, and one does not feel that the author needed to resort to unfair manipulation to make it come out right.

An enjoyable afternoon. I'd certainly read another.

2010-08-24 | Atheen (Mpls, MN United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4

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Ghost Walk
Book arrived quickly, a real steal for the money! Great reading! I love Heather Graham books! Thumbs up!

2010-03-04 (Pa) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Feels Like I am in New Orleans!
I really enjoyed this book from beginning to end. I can't wait to visit New Orleans and enjoyed the atmosphere that Heather Graham created. A guided ghost tour is just the kind of thing I would love to do so I found the details of this story interesting.
I also like the format of this book and some of the other similar books this author has written.

2009-10-03 (CT United States) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Loved it so much I ran out and purchased Haunted
This was my first Heather Graham book. I fell in love with it and the minute I finished reading it, I ran out and bought Haunted. Excellent plot, very well written, and vivid characters. Set in New Orleans just made it more perfect. Highly recommend.

2009-06-10 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Not at all what I expected
When they said used book they meant it. Not in any good condition I have received better.

2009-03-28 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 2

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