Waking
The Dead
Heather
Graham
Mira, Jan 27 2015, $7.99
ISBN: 9780778317449
In 1816 Henry Sebastian Hubert enjoys “year without summer” off
Lake Geneva with friends George, Lord Byron; Percy and Mary Shelley; and Claire
Godwin. As part of an artistic contest
among the friends, Henry paints the haunting Ghosts in the Mind portraying a
murder.
In present day New Orleans Danni Cafferty visits her friend Niles
Villiers’ Image Me This Gallery.
Ecstatic Niles shows her why he is elated; he received 100
computer-generated giclee prints of Ghosts of the Mind in which the current
owner of the original resides in The Big
Easy. Meanwhile former cop turned
private investigator Michael Quinn returns from Texas to look into
horrific harrowing homicides. Soon Quinn
joined by Cafferty start to wonder if the Hubert painting is the malevolent
cause.
The second Cafferty & Quinn (and Wolf) urban fantasy (see Let
The Dead Sleep) is a taut paranormal murder mystery with a powerful cast
entrenched in a vividly haunting atmospheric New Orleans and a seemingly seeped
in evil Swiss castle. The case hooks
readers from the opening nineteenth century Swiss scene and keeps its hold
until the climatic confrontation.
Although that final face to face fight is marred by the killer’s
boasting soliloquy (pet peeve of mine), this remains an enjoyable paranormal
thriller.
Harriet Klausner
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