This is one of those books that gives you little “Breadcrumbs” as you read. A hint here, a clue there, leading up to a tense, and also somewhat unexpected ending. Its not a mystery though, more like a Horror book. There is some mystery in it, however.

A woman learns her husband has been murdered. Then, stranger things start happening. She has all these wierd dreams about him, that seem too real. Bizarre, perverse, sexual dreams, that she never had before his death. Her daughter thinks she is seeing Daddy come visit her as a ghost. Her son sets up video cameras to catch the ghost, and actually catches something on tape. Her husbands ex wife manages to somehow kill herself, even while shes in a mental hospital, and sends her a note she wrote right before she offed herself. What is happening here?

She talks to her family, her therapist, and old friends. Then, she meets this psychic, who tells her about his concept of the afterlife. There is also information about a school, that was closed down after a fire. This school was run by the Government, and was trying to look for children who had potential, or actual talent, as “Psychics”. It just gets wierder and wierder!

The ending is…. odd. Not quite what I expected. Some of the loose ends get resolved well, others made me go “What?”. An example of that would be the link between the Psychic and the murdered husband.

What this book does well is question what the Afterlife really is, but not in a religious way at all. The author also captured perfectly the silence that surrounds a person right after a loved one dies. That “funk” that you go into where time seems to sorta not work anymore, and you aren’t really focused on things like doing laundry, or getting out of bed in the morning, is very realistically portrayed in this book. What didn’t work so well, other than parts of the ending, were the errors. I was reading an unedited proof, which I got because I work at a bookstore, and there were enough spelling errors to actually be distracting! The book is due out sometime in December, and should be all corrected by then. It’s a good read.