Victoria Laurie, What's A Ghoul to Do?

What's A Ghoul to Do?

Victoria Laurie

Signet, April 2007, $6.99, 304 pp.

ISBN 0451220900

M.J. Holiday was always able to see and speak to ghosts so she became a medium and her clients would ask her to try to contact their loved ones. Although she was very successful and the money was rolling in, she changed directions and became a ghost buster helping spirits move on. She works with computer guru Gilley Gillespie who loves the computer world but is afraid to go into a haunted house.

Dr. Steven Sable contacts M.J. because he wants her to contact his father's ghost (which he has seen) in his lodge. The police say he committed suicide by jumping off the roof but Steven is positive that his grandfather wasn't suicidal. When they arrive at the lodge, M.J. contacts three ghosts, but none of them seem to want to talk to her. In the meantime, they have a bigger problem. Steven's father who had never acknowledged him is in town and it is obvious he wants something and will do anything to get it. Steven and Laurie intend to stop him but they need the help of the ghosts to do it.

This paranormal cozy mystery is a ghost lovers' delight. They play a small but crucial part in this fast-paced tale. Victoria Laurie is a storyteller who charms her audience with benevolent ghosts, a romantic interest for M.J. and a smashing and surprising climax. Each ghost has its own personally which adds to the atmosphere of WHAT'S A GHOUL TO DO? The writer uses words to create a novel so that readers see the paranormal with the mind's eye.

Harriet Klausner