Tag Archives: Ghosts
Steven Symes. Shadow House. Morrisville, NC: lulu.com, 2010.
Scott Bennett is suffering. As a hardworking New York lawyer, he put his career ahead of his family. And then his family was gone–killed in a car crash. Scott is consumed with guilt and plagued by nightmares. With little planning, … Continue reading
Ellen Block. The Language of Sand. New York: Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2010.
After losing her husband and young son in a devastating house fire, Abigail Harker’s life changes forever. Everything precious to her has been taken away, and she finds that without her family she cannot resume her life in Boston as … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Block, Ellen, Coast, Novels Set in Fictional Places
Kevin Burton McGuire. Fire Gazer: Arson at the Wolfe House. Asheville, NC: Reminiscing Books, 2009.
It’s the summer of 1998 and newspaper reporter Ben Jennings is assigned to interview a man who claims to have seen ghosts on the grounds of the old Highland Hospital in Asheville. DC is that man. He’s intelligent and provocative … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2009, Buncombe, McGuire, Kevin Burton, Mountains
Denzil Strickland. Swimmers in the Sea. Lewisville, NC: Press53, 2008.
Strickland’s first novel opens outside of New Orleans with a horrible car crash that kills four people–a newly married couple in one car and two young children in the other. The children’s parents, Don and Gail Ebbets, survive but their … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Piedmont, Strickland, Denzil
Donna Boyd. The Awakening. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
Leo Tolstoy’s observation that “each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” is once again proven true in this novel. The sources of the Mason family’s unhappiness are many: unrealized dreams, overwork, spouses who drift apart, infidelity, a traumatized … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2003, Boyd, Donna, Piedmont
Edith Edwards. The Ghosts of Turtle Nest. New York: iUniverse, 2007.
Connie Edmonds has built a successful real estate business in Southport, but she is haunted by the past. She didn’t intervene to prevent a sergeant from bullying a fellow WAC into despair and suicide. The dead girl’s father, a United … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2007, Brunswick, Coast, Edwards, Edith, Religious/Inspirational
Richard Dansky. Firefly Rain. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2008.
In this supernatural thriller prodigal son Jacob Logan fails to heed Thomas Wolfe’s warning about going home again. When Logan returns to his hometown of Mayfield, North Carolina and moves into the family homeplace years after his parents’ deaths, he … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2008, Dansky, Richard, Horror, Novels Set in Fictional Places
Nicholas Sparks. True Believer. New York: Warner, 2005.
When it looks like ghosts are haunting a cemetery in Boone Creek, N.C., science writer Jeremy Marsh comes to town to investigate. Marsh expected to find a plausible explanation for the ghostly visions, but did not plan on falling for … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2005, Novels in Series, Sparks, Nicholas, Watauga
Scott Nicholson. The Red Church. New York: Kensington, 2002.
The old red church in Whispering Pines, N.C., a fictional town in the Appalachian mountains, has stood empty for twenty years, said to be haunted by the ghost of the preacher who was hung from its rafters by his own … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2002, Horror, Mountains, Nicholson, Scott
B.J. Mountford. Sea-Born Women. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair, 2002.
Wanting to start her life anew in a quiet, out-of-the-way place, Roberta (“Bert”) Lenehan takes a job in the coastal town of Portsmouth, N.C. But peace and quiet never come as she is disturbed by mysterious noises in the night. … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2002, Carteret, Coast, Mountford, B. J., Mystery, Novels in Series
