Ghost Layer
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3.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Second in the new series from the author of Heart Fortune, Heart Journey, and other Celta novels
What lies beneath…
Clare Cermak’s adjusting to a new man in her life—and a lot of ghosts. The passing of Clare’s aunt gave way to a sizeable inheritance of not only money, but also the ability to communicate with the dead. At the same time, she met Zach Slade, a private detective with a rough past, and just like Clare, he’s not yet ready to accept her gift—or his own.
But Clare has another matter to look into. A multimillionaire needs her help after relocating an old ghost town to his mountain estate. The bones of a murdered prospector are making nightly appearances in his guests’ beds. When the gold miner’s ghost contacts Clare, she promises to help find the name of his killer—but someone doesn't want the past revealed and might find her first…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The middling second volume of the Ghost Seer series (after Ghost Seer) limps as noticeably as its protagonist, Montana lawman turned Denver PI Zach Slade. He and novice medium Clare Cermak made it through their first case together with their sanity and budding romance intact, but unlike her characters, Owens does not appear ready to move on. Although she avoids an out and out summary of the first book, every bit of character backstory is wearyingly reiterated the explanation of Zach's lame leg is proffered twice in the first three paragraphs. Appearing between the rehashes are a reasonably entertaining story about a ghostly prospector, J. Dawson Hidgepath, whose bones appear in ladies' beds; a truculent not-quite-billionaire who hires Clare to stop these incursions; and an unknown someone who would prefer that Clare exit the picture. The characters remain appealing, but the plot never establishes enough self-contained momentum to make a page-turner.
