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A reviewer, October 22, 2004,
A fabulous holiday investigative
tale
In Six Gun, Texas, author Alice
Carpenter has worked out the rules of sharing her home with ghosts.
However, her cousin Katy Gueydon is not doing quite as well dealing with
spirits and begs Alice to help her with Sir Gary Gavin. Katy’s plea
changes when she finds a corpse in her swimming pool at Esprit d’Chene
estate. Alice calls her former spouse Detective Jack Carpenter, who
works near her cousin’s home, while she drives the two hours to help
Katy............................... Alice quickly learns that the victim
is Bucky Wilson-Jones, son of a state senator. Though Bucky was a
reprobate, Alice realizes that the prime suspect is her cousin, a steal
magnolia who has lost her metallic backbone. As Alice investigates the
current killing, tries to solve Gary’s two century old “undeliberate”
murder, and works with settling down a bewildered and angry Bucky, she
needs help. Jack don’t believe in ghosts so she turns to her mentor
Twila Brown and their neighbor Granny to form the ghosthunter amateur
sleuth team trying to resolve the three related
scenarios............................ This is a fabulous holiday
investigative tale that hooks the audience the moment that readers learn
of The Alice and the Howard Ghost Agreement of co-living rules. The
women especially Alice and the ghosts own the plot, but readers will
commiserate more with Jack the non-believer; he copes with ghost hunting
females, a real murder with political implications, and some paranormal
phenomena that makes him wonder what to accept as truth. Even without
the Ghostbusters, readers will believe in ghosts as Alice and company
act like it is a normal phenomenon, all this supernatural phenomena
resides inside a delightful
who-done-it.................................. Harriet Klausner |
