Fiction : Ghost

Tour guide Nikki DuMonde makes her living taking groups of tourists to see haunted mansions and ghostly graveyards in the Big Easy, but she’s not prepared for a spooky nocturnal visit by one of her employees. In fact, when Andrea Ciello appears at her bedside at four o’clock in the morning begging for help – then disappears – Nikki is more than a little miffed at what she assumes is a joke perpetrated by her coworkers. She vows to let them know that she doesn’t scare so easily at her first opportunity. Then, in the harsh light of day, the police arrive to inform Nikki that Andy died the night before – at the exact time she “appeared” in Nikki’s bedroom. Andy was a recovering drug addict who had apparently died of an overdose. But Nikki is sure that Andy was clean – and, though she can hardly believe it, she suspects the young woman had come to ask Nikki to help bring her killer to justice. No one believes her – until she meets Brent Blackhawk, a paranormal investigator desperately trying to forget his tragic past. Half Irish, half Lakota Sioux – and able to communicate with the dead – Brent is used to living in two worlds, the living and the ghostly. Brent has come to New Orleans to look into the murder of FBI officer Tom Garfield, an above-reproach investigator who was also found dead of an overdose. He’s quick to pick up on the similarities between Garfield’s death and that of Andrea Ciello. When he discovers that Nikki has also been “seeing” Garfield, he’s sure that both he and Andy were victims of the same vicious killer. Brent knows that Nikki somehow holds the key to the mysteries surrounding these brutal deaths. To find the truth about both murders, he must not only convince her that she has a special ability to communicate with ghosts, but he must also get her to cooperate in his investigation. Not surprisingly, Nikki – whose friends have arranged to send her to a shrink – doesn’t welcome Brent’s attempts to explain that he, to more...

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Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their timely ghostly teachings-like the ability to Fade. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? And then there are things like ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other. This chilling tale is Neil Gaiman's first full-length novel for middle-grade readers since the internationally bestselling and universally acclaimed Coraline . Like Coraline , this book is sure to enchant and surprise young readers as well as Neil Gaiman's legion of adult fans. more...

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Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure wants her resident sleuth-ghost, Jack, to stop haunting her customers. But when a pretty author is murdered, Jack can't rest in peace. Original. more...

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In the novella 'After the Music' by Christine Feehan, Jessica Fitzpatrick faces evil machinations in the remote island mansion of the estranged father of her twin wards. In 'Lady of the Locket' by Melanie George, Rachel Hudson finds herself in a Scottish castle, face-to-face with the ghost of a fierce and handsome Highlander, Duncan MacGregor. more...

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Emerald O'Brien is the owner of the Chintz 'n China Tea Room where guests are served the perfect blend of tea and tarot reading. She never set out to be a detective, but once word gets out that she can communicate with the dead, there's no turning back... When the ghost of Susan Mitchell asks for Emerald's help in convicting her own murderer, Emerald can't refuse. Along with her friends-an ex-supermodel and a cop-and her new love interest, Emerald must search for clues to put the killer behind bars-and this tortured soul to rest. more...

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