Review: A Great Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 3, 2012
This is the second in The Southern Haunting series. Having read the first, Vagrant, I read and left a review and was anxiously waiting for the second. Lucky me, I saw that the publisher was offering a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review so here I am again.The book centers around Crate Northgate, a man who sees ghosts. This particular "gift" is how he earns his living, traveling about the country and helping people and their ghosts move on. In The Girl, Crate finds himself in the south where people die hard. 2 years earlier a girl went missing. Her mother and sister are convinced she was kidnapped or something and will one day be returned, or maybe she just left. Her father knows though that she is dead... he sees her ghost. He has hired Crate to find out what happened and to help her move on.  In the process Crate makes a few enemies and unburies a secret that may tear a family apart.Now I'm going to say that there were a few predictabilities in this story, I figured a few things out... or maybe infered a few things, which later proved to be true, but that being said this was a great read. Bryan Hall has a way of bringing his characters to life and allowing the reader to relate to them. Crate approaches ghost hunting in a no nonsense way. The fact that he is haunted by his brother adds to the story and I look forward to the next book. If you love reading supernatural short stories this is the book to read.