Helpful Score: 3
Loved this and can't wait for the sequel! Had the right blend of mystery, romance, suspense, and paranormal activity. Charlotte Stone's lucky escape from a serial killer as a teen led her to a career that puts her inside the mind of the most heinous murderers. When the murders start again, the FBI enlists her help both as a professional and a witness. An unlikely companion in the form of a ghost doesn't make her job any easier. When the media outs her identity, she goes from being part of the FBI team to a target.
Helpful Score: 1
Dr. Charlotte "Charlie" Stone witnesses a murder in her friends house as a teenager that chills her to the bone, and she sees who the killer is. A night she will never forget. 15 years later she has grown up and become an expert in criminal pathology, trying to learn how serial killers tick.
Doing her research in a prison she is seated across from a man that lured women by his looks and when alone he murdered them, seven total. She is going through her routine when she is interrupted by FBI agents that need to speak with her.
In her office they tell her that either the same person that killed her friend 15 years ago or a copycat is back at it again and they need her assistance. She reluctantly takes the job offer.
She is followed by a "ghostly" spirit that has attached himself to her. He was a former inmate. Throughout the novel they have this love hate relationship, which is rather unbelievable but written very well. He seems to appear during only the most inappropirate times and seems even rather helpful yet dangerous all the at the same time.
While on the job with the FBI agents she is outed on national television about being the sole survior that saw the killer 15 years ago (the media called the murderer the board walk killer). If it is the original killer 15 years ago he now knows what she looks like as an adult and will most likely try hunting her down as well.
The book takes you on all kinds of twists and turns, it had me saying out loud, "oh I didn't see that coming." There were even moments of laugh out loud funny parts. I stayed up until 2 a.m. because I just didn't want to stop reading. It took a total of two and a half days to read. As long as you're not anti ghosts and have a hard time believing in their existence or can set it aside for some fun fiction this should be a worth while read otherwise you may get bored really quick.
Doing her research in a prison she is seated across from a man that lured women by his looks and when alone he murdered them, seven total. She is going through her routine when she is interrupted by FBI agents that need to speak with her.
In her office they tell her that either the same person that killed her friend 15 years ago or a copycat is back at it again and they need her assistance. She reluctantly takes the job offer.
She is followed by a "ghostly" spirit that has attached himself to her. He was a former inmate. Throughout the novel they have this love hate relationship, which is rather unbelievable but written very well. He seems to appear during only the most inappropirate times and seems even rather helpful yet dangerous all the at the same time.
While on the job with the FBI agents she is outed on national television about being the sole survior that saw the killer 15 years ago (the media called the murderer the board walk killer). If it is the original killer 15 years ago he now knows what she looks like as an adult and will most likely try hunting her down as well.
The book takes you on all kinds of twists and turns, it had me saying out loud, "oh I didn't see that coming." There were even moments of laugh out loud funny parts. I stayed up until 2 a.m. because I just didn't want to stop reading. It took a total of two and a half days to read. As long as you're not anti ghosts and have a hard time believing in their existence or can set it aside for some fun fiction this should be a worth while read otherwise you may get bored really quick.
