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Grenada Ghost: Romance, Suspense, Murder

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This book is a reality checker and a heart warmer

Lyle Gordon, the 8-year old rustic, leaves his native Trinidad and Tobago with the ambitious expectations of becoming a friend of John Wayne and enjoying the American largesse. Instead, he meanders through poverty in his Aunt Lily's tenement.

"Grenada Ghost," a most unique work of suspense fiction, depicts the struggles, romances, politics, humor, and misdeeds of Caribbean people scattered throughout the diaspora. In the West Indian Labor Day parade, Lyle translates the concise imagery of the Caribbean tongue for Constance Wagner, the Jewish reporter, and a vengeful reveler murders her.

Two greenhorn detectives solve the murder by going into the protagonists' background.

"I have never read anything like GRENADA GHOST. It is an excellent piece of literature," says REV. FATHER HOWARD K. WILLIAMS, St. Agustine's Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York.

"Best Caribbean-American novel...The plot, romance, suspend and murder, unfolds within Caribbean neighborhoods of New York City. It is a pity that GRENADA GHOST was not published when the television series, MURDER SHE WROTE, was around because Lloyd Hollis Crooks would have made a bundle and Angela Lansbury would have had a field day solving the murder...Every Caribbean-American deserves to read the novel. It's about you, and, if not,it is about your friends and family." REVIEWER H.G. RAVI, EVERYBODY'S Magazine.

"You are a helluva storyteller, Lloyd Crooks! Your work stands out among the other illustrious novelists of the Caribbean." DR. CLINTON CRAWFORD, Interviewer, 91.5 FM

"Crooks' work is highly emotive as he beckons and with cunning slight of pen finally draws the reader farther into the recesses of his own intimate being to seek the answer. His artistry is apparent, not only in the juxtaposition of diverse themes, but also in the variety of language. His use of the Caribbean dialect ribboned to the standard vernacular creates a balance and lends tonal color which, in itself, is representative of the very topics of race and culture that characterize GRENADA GHOST." CARIBBEAN LIFE BROOKLYN EDITION

"No novelist before had taken that ethnic energy called Labor Day Carnival in Brooklyn and weaved it into an international suspense thriller; Lloyd Hollis Crooks has, in GRENADA GHOST." KAI CEE, Freelance Reporter, Mozambique.