Ghosts: Author's Revised Edition
by Noel Hynd
eBook ISBN: 9781615720651
Price: $ 6.95
Genre: Paranormal
Sub Genre: Thriller
Novel of 152695 words
Sex rating: 2
Violence rating: 4
Edited by Andrea Heacock Reyes
Cover Artwork by Ash Arceneaux
Print ISBN: 9781615720644 Buy Here
About the book:
Nantucket Island is a peaceful place to vacation in the summer...for those who are unaware of its tragic past. Each June, parishioners gather in the comfort of Reverend Osaro’s church to listen as locals relate their first-hand experiences with spirits in town.
Detective Tim Brooks, forced to question his belief in the supernatural, takes on the most vile of ghosts imaginable to save the entire island from its wrath. Bodies pile up as he races to figure out who this spirit is and why it is so malevolent. Who will fall victim next? An innocent vacationer? The starlet, Annette? The unorthodox minister? Or perhaps Tim himself?
An elderly woman’s turning table holds the key to discovering Nantucket’s bloody past, and perhaps putting an end to the senseless murders on the island. Tim finds help in some unlikely places, but will it be enough?
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Brooks was one of the officers who helped pull the body to shore. Medical technicians attempted immediate CPR as well as electric shock to try to revive Bruce Markley. Both efforts failed. Dr. Herbert Youmans, the regular medical examiner, pronounced Markley dead an hour later at Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
Tragic and regrettable as the death was, the incident gave greater pause to Tim Brooks than anyone else. Markley’s corpse was pulled from the water toward dusk. The rescue teams worked by floodlight, which can sometimes cast strange, horrific shadows. So Brooks wasn’t entirely sure of what he had seen. He caught one quick glimpse of the boy’s white, waterlogged lifeless face before the CPR was attempted and before his body was whisked to an ambulance.
Brooks read something in the boy’s expression that he didn’t like. It was a trace of extra terror. Not just the I’m-drowning-oh-my-God-please-save-me! type of terror. Something extra. Something which had an echo from the twisted, contorted death mask worn by Beth DiMarco.
“Crazy! You’re imagining this!” Brooks told himself.
“No, you’re not!” came an answering thought a moment later.
Brooks froze. A deep chill gripped him so fiercely that he physically shuddered. He didn’t think he had subconsciously responded to his own question. No, he had distinctly heard that other intrusive voice again, communicating with him from God-knew-where, just as it had at the scene of Beth’s death.
More thoughts rolled upon him. This time, his own: Bruce Markley had seen something horrendous out in the water in the moments before he died. Yes! Out in the water! No one on this island is safe!
The voice answered again.
“Right!” it croaked.
External Reviews:
| Debbie Wiley at Book Illuminations | "...one of the scariest reads I’ve had in awhile. Simply magnificent!" |
| Denisse Alicea at the Pen and Muse Blog | "You cannot miss this read if you need a good scare!" |
| Natalie Hernandez, Amazon Kindle Review | ...and the next thing you know you are hooked into what's got to be the scariest ghost story written in the last twenty five years. |
| Penny Lockwood Ehrenkranz | "Noel Hynd is a master at crafting a spine tingling tale." |
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