Ghost Shadow (The Bone Island Trilogy)

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...

I really enjoy all of Heather Graham's novels, and this was no exception. I cannot wait to read the other two.

Katie O'Hara is a young woman who is happy with her life. While she may not have a high powered career, she loves living in Key West, Florida; enjoys running `Katie-oke' (as in Karaoke) at her uncle's bar, and one of her best friends is a ghost. How is that possible? Katie can see, and talk to, many of the ghosts who inhabit Key West. While Katie's career may not be supercharged, she does plan to purchase and re-open the Beckett Museum, the site of one of the most notorious of Key West's murders. Ten years previous, a young woman, Tanya Barnard, was murdered and her body placed in one of the exhibits. The following morning her ex-fiancée, David Beckett, had the misfortune to find her body. Katie would like to return the museum to its former glory, and all she has left to do is sign the last batch of papers, But then David Beckett returns from a ten year absence and puts a halt to the sale; he doesn't want "...to see history repeat itself." Regardless of David's wishes, it soon appears that history is repeating itself. You see, other people start turning up dead, and in much the same way as Tanya. Is David the murderer? Katie doesn't know the answer to that, but what she does know is that she is falling in love with this handsome man. With the help of several ghosts, her brother (who also comes home to Key West) and David, Katie sets about to solve the mystery. What she doesn't know is that she is being targeted by the killer too. It took me exactly five pages to get drawn into Ghost Shadow; that's when we learn of Tanya's murder. The story was quick reading and offered a good mystery that kept me guessing. I thought I had figured out the murderer several times but each time, a few chapters later, I found I was wrong. You'll have to pay attention to the little clues the author tosses out; they're easy to miss. I also really enjoyed the character of Katie O'Hara. She was believable and had just the right amount of spunkiness to her personality so that she was fun without sacrificing realism (no superhero characteristics). Her ability to see and talk to ghosts was a big part of the story and I loved this aspect of the novel. While many stories that incorporate ghosts get silly and just don't work, Graham weaved her supernatural characters into the tale perfectly so that they seemed like a natural fit. In fact, Bartholomew, a long dead pirate, er, privateer, as he repeatedly reminds Katie, was my favorite character. While he can't protect Katie in a physical sense, he can warn her of danger, other ghosts, and help her solve the murders. It's clear he cares for her and I found their relationship touching. In short, Ghost Shadow was a fun, satisfying read. Quill says: Heather Graham has another hit series on her hands with the publication of the first of The Bone Island Trilogy.

Well, what can I say? Heather Graham has done it again! As a long time fan I look forward to her new books only to find out its the same formula she uses in her past books. But, she nabs me from the get go and I can't put the darn book down! I really enjoyed it and the characters were good too. The ghost, or should I say, ghosts, were great. You get it all..history, tragedy, romance, mystery and a spook or two and pirates. Makes for good summer reading! Ahoy matey!

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