Review: great story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 29, 2013
This novella is a ghost story crossed with a Brit-style police procedural mystery. (Think Inspector Morse or Lewis.) Good strong characters with a lot of depth, a heartbreaking story, and if it's not as chilling as the first book in the series, that's likely only because the shock factor's down a hair.[SPOILER ALERT]One inherent problem with ghost stories is that usually the ghost's threatening is limited to thrown objects or psychological tricks, such as bumps in the night or spooky sights. The impression here is that whatever's been awakened in York isn't going to be limited in that manner. Nice touch, that.[END SPOILER]Mr. Leadbeater's ghost stories are now on my must-buy list. And that's a very very short list.