Carol Goodman, The Ghost Orchid
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Carol Goodman, The Ghost Orchid
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The Ghost Orchid Carol Goodman Ballantin
The Ghost Orchid
Carol Goodman
Ballantine, Feb 2006, $24.95
ISBN: 0345462130
Ellis Brooks has been invited to stay at the Upstate New York Bosco Estate to research her first novel, a fictional account of what happened at the Victorian mansion in 1893. Aurora Latham, wife of wealthy timber merchant Milo, hired medium Corinth Blackwell to contact the spirits of her three dead children, who all died from a diphtheria epidemic. Instead, someone, probably the psychic, abducts the Latham's only living child Alice.
Ellis meets the other guests who are mostly writers of sorts, with at least two working on somewhat similar projects involving the Bosco Mansion. As Ellis conducts on-site research, her psychic roots as the daughter of a mystic begin to unravel what really happened in 1893, one paranormal escapade at a time.
Though perhaps there are too many mystical twists, fans will enjoy this fun Gothic like mystery. The rotation between past and present is done smoothly, with Ellis as the prime source between alternating eras. The cast in 1893 and today are fully developed to include a potentially haunted mansion and sinister gardens. Readers will take immense delight, wondering until the climax as Ellis guides the audience through the estate, whether this is a ghost story or not; that is what makes Carol Goodman's thriller worth reading.
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