Ghost Shadow
Heather Graham
Mira, Jun 29 2010, $7.99
ISBN: 9780778327912
In Key West, photographer David Beckett takes the group on a tour of his family’s wax museum. They reach the Count von Cosel exhibit however, in the bed near the Count is not waxy version Elena, but the corpse of David’s former fiancée Tanya Barnard. Although everyone suspected David killed her, no evidence proved he did. Still he left town with a cloud hanging over him.
Ten years later, the Barnard homicide remains unsolved as David returns to Key West. With the death of David’s octogenarian grandfather last year, businesswoman Katie O’Hara, a ghost whisperer, wants to buy the wax museum; David opposes the sale. He asks his friend Pete and his cousin Liam, both cops, to reopen the cold case. When a second murder occurs with the victim posed in a nearby museum, the Key West police and Katie wonder if the killer just came home from overseas after a decade away.
Ghost Shadow is an entertaining paranormal romantic suspense. The investigation is fun to follow, but remains in the background to the romance. The heroine in spite of communicating with ghosts (Bartholomew the spirit adds humor to the mix) has doubts about Beckett even as she falls in love with him. With a supernatural nod to Hitchcock’s Suspicion, fans will enjoy Ghost Shadow.
Harriet Klausner
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