"Fabulous ghostly who-done-it"

Nikki DuMonde, head guide for the successful Myths and Legends of New Orleans tour, gives twenty dollars to a bum, who is actually undercover FBI Agent Tom Garfield. Nikki sees the bum again when she is in a bar, but none of the other guides notice him. Meanwhile Detective Owen Massey and his partner Marc Jouellete investigate the murder of Tom, who died from an overdose yet a woman accused him of purse snatching after he was dead. FBI Agent Vince Haggerty also investigates, but he is a nasty lone wolf. Soon afterward tour guide Andrea Ciello dies the same way Tom did though most assume the ex addict fell off the wagon.

Adam Harrison directs Brent Blackhawk to go to New Orleans to investigate a ghostly purse snatcher. Brent grew up in New Orleans, but hates the city because that is where he has buried his beloved spouse. Still he follows orders and goes there.

When Nikki and another guide get into a fight with drunken college students, Brent rescues them. Brent introduces himself to Owen and Marc when he notices Nikki looking at mug shots. He shows her Tom's picture; she claims it is him, but he is dead and only Brent seems aware of what is going on including his desire for Nikki.

The attraction between Nikki and Brent hooks the reader from the onset while no setting can be better than New Orleans as a terrific backdrop for the ghosts. More critical to this fabulous paranormal romantic suspense thriller is that the ghosts seem genuine. Fans will read Heather Graham's fabulous ghostly who-done-it in one delightful sitting to learn what is really happening on the GHOST WALK.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 20, 2005

Summary

THIS IS NO DREAM...

Nikki DuMonde's newest employee is standing at the end of her bed at four o'clock in the morning begging for help. It's a joke, right? Besides, as manager of a successful New Orleans haunted-tour company, Nikki doesn't scare easily. But in the light of day, harsh reality sets in as a police officer informs her that Andy was brutally murdered—at the exact time Nikki swears the distraught woman was in her room.

No one believes her except Brent Blackhawk, a paranormal investigator desperately trying to forget his tragic past. Half Irish, half Lakota—and able to communicate with the dead—Brent is used to living in two worlds. But when he realizes the ghost of a slain government agent is also trying to reach out to Nikki, he knows that she, too, must listen to the dead...if she wants to keep living.