Ghosts [Paperback]

Noel Hynd (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2002

When Academy Award-winning actress Annette Carlson buys an old house in Nantucket, she discovers that the place is haunted by a malevolent spirit, who threatens not only Annette, but the entire community. By the author of Zigzag.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Sleepy Nantucket Island has become a homicide hotspot, with two unexplained deaths. While the murders appear to local cops to be unrelated, Detective Timothy Brooks, a recent transplant to the island, sees similarities in the corpses' wounds. Meanwhile, spectral disturbances, including sightings and eerie moving furniture, are plaguing both locals as well as the summer crowd. Hollywood star Annette Carlson, who bought a place following a stint in drug rehab, is besieged by visitations that she is certain are not figments of her overtaxed imagination. Brooks begins to see parallels between the recent killings and Carlson's bizarre accounts. He contacts his buddy, Lutheran minister and spiritualist George Osaro, to help identify the evil spirit--the ghost of Henry Flaherty, a no-account lothario and stage actor who was killed in the late 1920s. Soon, Osaro, Brooks and Carlson are pressed into service as "ghostbusters" to save Nantucket from a paranormal meltdown. Alternately playful and somber in tone, written in spare prose, Hynd's ( False Flags ) lengthy story will arouse fear and suspicion in any reader who has ever heard things go "bump"--day or night.
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From Library Journal

A malevolent spirit is haunting the Nantucket house of actress Annette Carlson. It has killed at least three people with sickening viciousness. It now insinuates itself inside the head of policeman Timothy Brooks, a skeptical investigator forced against his will to recognize the existence of the occult. Brooks must lay this spirit to rest before it tires of toying with him and Annette and kills them both. With this novel, espionage writer Hynd makes his debut in the realm of the supernatural. A ghost novel needs to convince unbelieving readers against their will and scare the liver out of them, and Ghosts does this in spades. The atmosphere builds steadily, moving from reality to an utterly convincing realm of the supernatural. Public libraries need to buy this.
- Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Pinnacle (September 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786014865
• ISBN-13: 978-0786014866
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,470 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Noel Hynd is an American author who has more than four million books in print. Most of his books have been in the action-espionage-suspense genre (Conspiracy in Kiev, Midnight in Madrid, Countdown in Cairo, The Enemy Within) but others (Ghosts, The Prodigy, A Room For The Dead and Cemetery of Angels) were highly acclaimed ghost stories. He currently has a multi-book publishing contract with Zondervan/HarperCollins.
He is also a former contributor to Sports Illustrated and several other national magazines. His 1988 non-fiction book, The Giants of The Polo Grounds, was an Editor's Choice of The New York TIMES Review of Books in 1988. He has also written several produced screenplays.
Mr. Hynd was born in New York City, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylavnia, and lives in southern California with his wife Patricia.
The Kindle editions of Midnight in Madrid and Conspiracy in Kiev were simultaneously numbers 1 and 2 among all books on Amazon's Kindle Best Seller lists in December 2009.
Several dozen foreign editions of his books have been published over the years. Readers are welcomed to reach Mr. Hynd at [e-mail].

Customer Reviews

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Scariest novel since The Shining, June 4, 2003

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This review is from: Ghosts/a Supernatural Thriller (Paperback)

Outstanding that this book is back in print; about 1/3 of the way into the story (everyone agrees at which point this happens), it grabs hold and does not let go until you've returned to the days when you were afraid to read at night or when you were alone in your house. A tremendously scary, tense novel with likeable characters and a fascinating resolution.

I wish I'd never read it so I could read it again for the first time.

If you liked 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, Hell House, you'll love this.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Watch out for the GHOSTS!, September 28, 2002

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This review is from: Ghosts (Paperback)

This is the first book I have read by Noel Hynd, and I am anticpately waiting to read "Cemetery of Angels," which is sitting on my shelf. Noel Hynd has articulate writing, and he captivates you from page one until page 511. The characters are very realistic and intelligent, and his psycholgical writing plays tricks on you through the entire novel. The main character, Annette Carlson, is a big-time movie star looking to get away from the people and the cameras for a little while, so she proceeds to spend time on Nantucket Island. There, she moves into a victorian style house, address, 17 Cort Street. Timothy Brooks is a detective for the island and soon meets up with the island's most sinister and horrifying creature ever. As the story progresses and SPOOKS YOU OUT, the two characters are drawn to each other. Noel Hynd provides a cunning and intelligent novel with a hit-the-bricks suprise ending!! I loved this book, and I am sure you will too. If you are the type of person that needs more sleep than the average person, like me, then be prepared to lose sleep over this terrific novel!!

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Made me scared of my own home, January 4, 2004

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Clay "Drunk, loser writer" (Ames, IA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ghosts (Paperback)

The most frightening novel about ghosts I have read. It takes place among the normal peaceful neighborhoods of Nantucket Island. The ghosts haunt the town by night, good and bad alike. They are not limited to any house, nor will any home keep them away. The ghosts stalk the night. No one is safe. Starts out like a murder mystery and comes around to horror and romance. Fabulous book.