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4.0 out of 5 stars
Already waiting for the next one..., December 5, 2008
This review is from: Devil May Ride (Ghost Dusters #2) (Mass Market Paperback)
I loved the first book in the series. I continue to enjoy Sadie, the heroine who sees dead people. The heroine's occupation is fascinating. This time we get more background on Sadie's brother and the rest of her family.
As usual, the plot moves quickly. The pacing is good. The Seattle setting seems very real . I even tried to figure out which Macrina Bakery the heroine visited (Belltown?).
My only concern was the reference to satanic rituals. From everything I've read, they're urban legends. Sadly, innocent people accused of crimes with no apparent motives have been charged with participating in these rituals. See the video Paradise Lost. Currently Seattle's Amanda Knox is being charged in Italy.
My only other quibble was the role of the journalist. Even if he ran a story about her - so what? The shelf life of stories is short. She gets referrals from cops and other insiders. And a news story about a cleaning service would be ho-hum.
Don't get me wrong: I'm already waiting for Volume #3. Wendy Roberts is one of the best new mystery authors I've read in a long time.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't start late at night . . ., December 8, 2008
This review is from: Devil May Ride (Ghost Dusters #2) (Mass Market Paperback)
In the second 'Ghost Dusters' book we are re-introduced to Sadie, the ghost seeing, crime scene cleaner (and I LOVE the name Wendy Roberts came up with for the business 'Scene-2-Clean' -- I know real businesses whose names aren't nearly as accurate nor as clever as that) and this book is as good, if not better then the original! You learn more about Sadie, her friends and family and the plot is gripping. Even better, Wendy ties up loose ends from the first book you didn't even know were there! I repeat the warning I gave for the first book in the series -- don't start at night or you're likely to lose a lot of sleep!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I'm Hooked on This Series, February 27, 2009
This review is from: Devil May Ride (Ghost Dusters #2) (Mass Market Paperback)
OK, I'm not slow, but it took me three-quarters of the book to figure out how the title related to the story and once I did, it was definitely a head thumping moment.
Second book in the Ghost Dusters series.
Sadie Novak has a unique gift, she can see and talk to the dead, that isn't so bad, the troubling part comes in that her company is into specialized cleaning. She and her business partner Zack clean up crime scenes. Donning haz-mat suites they clean the fluids and grizzle that is left behind at every unattended death.
She can see everyone that has died, everyone that is except suicides and the one person that she can not see is her brother Brian, who killed himself and no one knows why, leaving a big hold in Sadie.
But in a strange way this is his story. It doesn't start out that way and we learn more then you every wanted to know about bikers (hence the title) and cults. But most importantly, we learn how gifts that appear to be anything but, can save your soul and make you whole again.
That sounds a little heavy for this very good book, but you really learn a lot more about these characters then we were introduced to in the first book. I certainly hope that Ms. Roberts continues on with this series because I'm definitely hooked on this ghost busting angle of hers.
I highly recommend.
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