Genre: Mystery/Paranormal/Detective
Description:
“When Sam first starts getting phone calls with no name and no
number—and no one there on the line—he thinks it’s strange but not a big
deal—just irritating. Without a number, there’s no way to trace the calls to
either find out who it is that’s calling, or to block them and their annoying
pranks. But then the calls take a darker turn, spewing an unintelligible stream
of angry, garbled nonsense. The calls are very insistent, ringing through even
when the phone is turned completely off. To save their sanity, Sam and Lacey
have to figure out who—or what—is calling, and what it wants. But how?”
Author:
“Melissa Bowersock is an eclectic, award-winning author who writes in
a variety of fiction and non-fiction genres: paranormal, biography, western,
action, romance, fantasy, spiritual, and satire.”
For more visit Ms.Bowersock’s website and follow her on Facebook.
Appraisal:
If you’ve read a few of the 50 prior books in this series then you’ve
come to expect certain elements. A house or some place seems to be haunted. Sam
Firecloud is called in with his wife, Lacey Fitzpatrick, to figure things out.
Sam, with his ability to communicate telepathically with spirits who have not
yet left this world visits the haunted space and Sam describes what he’s seeing
which Lacey records. Together they ponder with Lacey figuratively putting on
her detective cap to help figure things out. As a team, they find what it will
take to help resolve the unfinished issues preventing the spirit from
peacefully moving on. It’s an engaging and thought-provoking pattern that the
author has managed to keep entertaining with each of her stories keeping the
reader guessing along with Sam and Lacey, just what you’d hope for in a mystery
story.
This book throws a few twists into the pattern especially in the
beginning, when they get calls that give no caller ID information and are
silent on the other end, at least at first. Later, some of the calls have a
voice that is too garbled to understand. How these calls evolve, how they
figure out where they are coming from and ultimately how to communicate in a
way they can understand with the being on the other end is full of twists and
turns we haven’t seen in any other book in the series. Then where this leads
them to resolve the issue at hand and how they get there is much different from
any of the other books in the series. Sam’s connection with the spirit behind
it all matters, but it felt like Lacey’s detective skills got much more of a
workout than is typical for the series too. In the end, it was an entertaining
read that shakes up the normal pattern, but that fans of the series are still
going to enjoy, find entertaining, and make them work a bit harder trying
unsuccessfully to figure out where things are going through most of the story.
I’d call that a positive.
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FYI:
While the 51st first book in the series, each book stands
alone.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 25-30,000 words
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