T.L. Hines, The Dead Whisper On

The Dead Whisper On

T.L. Hines

Bethany House, July 2007, 214 pp.

ISBN: 0764202057

Butte Montana garbage collector Candace "Canada" MacHugh hears a voice telling her to meet her at the Mint at 7:00 p.m. It is the voice of her father who has been dead for over a decade, and like Houdini he told her if there was a way to contact her after death he would. After eleven years she almost gave up hope, but even though she see him as a sort of vague shadow, she recognizes his voice substantiated by his telling her something only they would know.

He recruits her for Network of the Shadows whose agents save lives and warn people when danger is about to strike. She agrees to do this, but her agreement wakes up the golem Keros who has to stop her. She goes to various locations around the country, bringing attention to serial killers, a mall that is about to be blown up and finding a child during a tornado. However, when Keros comes in contact with her he tells her something that destroys her world and sends her back to Butte, where she fights the evil that has lived in the mine for a long time; though she might be killed she is trying to save her town.

Not everything is the way it seems in THE DEAD WHISPER ON. Readers will find immense pleasure in reading this book because the surprises come right after another; thus there is no chance that boredom will set in. The protagonist is a brave and gutsy woman, who is a natural leader, which the inhabitants of her town need if they are to be saved. Her ability to accept the unexplainable and plan from there makes her someone to admire and leave readers rooting for her as she tries to throw out the garbage harming people.