Here's a look at the first book I remember re-reading immediately after reading it the first time.
Book Review: The Perfect Ghost by Linda Barnes
Em
Moore is painfully shy. As the silent partner of a successful writing
team, she’s able to live a mostly solitary and self-sufficient life; she
does the writing, her partner Teddy does the information gathering and
the PR. When Teddy dies in a mysterious car accident, her world changes
drastically. Determined to finish their last project together, the
biography of reclusive movie director Garrett Malcolm, she leaves the
safety of her apartment and resolves to complete the interviews with the
man himself, despite everyone’s doubts.
The story unfolds slowly but deliberately, told by Em and addressed to Teddy in absentia. Details from her past seep into the narrative and they aren’t pleasant. Em is a survivor, but will she fall victim to a fatal accident herself? Malcolm clearly has secrets, and it seems more and more likely that Teddy’s accident wasn’t an accident at all. Did he discover something scandalous? Was he up to something scandalous himself?
This book was impossible for me to put down and the ending caught me by surprise — I love it when an author can do that! I immediately began re-reading and became even more impressed. It takes a lot of skill to show readers everything they need to know but lead them in an entirely different direction. Linda Barnes just made my “Must Read” list.
*Originally posted on my first blog (Lighthearted Librarian), December 2014
Book Review: The Perfect Ghost by Linda Barnes
The story unfolds slowly but deliberately, told by Em and addressed to Teddy in absentia. Details from her past seep into the narrative and they aren’t pleasant. Em is a survivor, but will she fall victim to a fatal accident herself? Malcolm clearly has secrets, and it seems more and more likely that Teddy’s accident wasn’t an accident at all. Did he discover something scandalous? Was he up to something scandalous himself?
This book was impossible for me to put down and the ending caught me by surprise — I love it when an author can do that! I immediately began re-reading and became even more impressed. It takes a lot of skill to show readers everything they need to know but lead them in an entirely different direction. Linda Barnes just made my “Must Read” list.
*Originally posted on my first blog (Lighthearted Librarian), December 2014
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