Heather Graham Ghost Walk

Ghost Walk

Heather Graham

Mira, Oct 2005, $7.50, 400 pp.

ISBN: 0778322181

Nikki DuMonde, head guide for the successful Myths and Legends of New Orleans tour, gives twenty dollars to a bum, who is actually undercover FBI Agent Tom Garfield. Nikki sees the bum again when she is in a bar, but none of the other guides notice him. Meanwhile Detective Owen Massey and his partner Marc Jouellete investigate the murder of Tom, who died from an overdose yet a woman accused him of purse snatching after he was dead. FBI Agent Vince Haggerty also investigates, but he is a nasty lone wolf. Soon afterward tour guide Andrea Ciello dies the same way Tom did though most assume the ex addict fell off the wagon.

Adam Harrison directs Brent Blackhawk to go to New Orleans to investigate a ghostly purse snatcher. Brent grew up in New Orleans, but hates the city because that is where he has buried his beloved spouse. Still he follows orders and goes there.

When Nikki and another guide get into a fight with drunken college students, Brent rescues them. Brent introduces himself to Owen and Marc when he notices Nikki looking at mug shots. He shows her Tom's picture; she claims it is him, but he is dead and only Brent seems aware of what is going on including his desire for Nikki.

The attraction between Nikki and Brent hooks the reader from the onset while no setting can be better than New Orleans as a terrific backdrop for the ghosts. More critical to this fabulous paranormal romantic suspense thriller is that the ghosts seem genuine. Fans will read Heather Graham's fabulous ghostly who-done-it in one delightful sitting to learn what is really happening on the GHOST WALK.

Harriet Klausner