Haunted (Fingerprints) [Import] [Paperback]

Melinda Metz (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Collins (2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0007132751
• ISBN-13: 978-0007132751
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Melinda Metz grew up in San Jose, California. People sometimes ask if she knows the way there. She kinda does, but she has an off-kilter sense of direction, so to be confident of arriving, it's better to consult some kind of navigational device.

Her mother tried to teach her to read in kindergarten, but Melinda had no interest. She also had no interest in learning to write her name. (FYI, when Melinda was in kindergarten it was all about finger-painting, play time, and naps.) Eventually, she mastered both and even majored in English at San Jose State University.

After college, Melinda moved to Manhattan to seek her fortune, which involved learning to identify fruits and vegetables while working at a grocery store,
making $2.73 working backstage for an off-off Broadway play (her part of the box-office profits), and editing books.

Melinda and the lovely and talented Laura J. Burns pretty much became unofficial writing partners when they were editors at the same company. They teamed up to brainstorm story ideas, and at some point their brains fused in some key places. Later they worked on the Roswell High book series, Laura developing and editing the series, Melinda writing.

That series led to Melinda and Laura, now an official writing team, writing two TV pilots, moving to L.A. to work on the Roswell TV show, and briefly living in Toronto while on the writing staff of 1-800-Missing. They both continue to write books, together and separately.

Melinda has never regretted learning to read and write her name.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Haunted, May 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Haunted (Fingerprints, Book 2) (Paperback)

In Haunted Jesse gets kidnapped except everyone thinks that he's run away. But Anthony knows better than that because Jesse would never leave without telling him. Together Anthony and Rae search for clues as to where he was kidnapped. You find out that the evil person behind all this has a special power too. The whole book is full of Anthony, Rae, and Yana(Rae's friend) going on a wild goose chase searching for Jesse. It may be a wild goose chase but you learn a lot about each character more. This book was really good even though the first one was better. I would recommend this to anyone. I can't wait till Trust Me comes out in June.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Second Book in the Fingerprints Series, March 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Haunted (Fingerprints, Book 2) (Paperback)

After nearly being killed in "Gifted Touch" (#1), Rae Voight now seems to have another unidentified enemy, one that abducts her 13-year-old friend, Jesse Beven. Everyone else believes he ran away--including his mother--, but Rae and her friend, Anthony Fascinelli, seriously doubt hes run away, especially not after the psychic clues Rae picks up while reading other peoples fingerprints. These clues take Rae, Anthony, and Yana Savari (another one of Raes pals) on an overnight trip to New Orleans, Louisiana, where they hope to find Jesses abusive, estranged father, the man they believe may have stolen Jesse. However, when their lead doesnt produce Jesse, the threesome is forced to start over, this time interviewing new witnesses with conflicting memories of what happened to Jesse that day. Among the five stories that are given, which one can Rae rely on? Because this time its not just her own life at stake--Jesse might die if she doesnt find him in time.

"Haunted" is the first book Ive read so far in this series. I was quite impressed with this book and hope the others are just as good. Fingerprints is definitely a not-to-be-missed series if you like paranormal teen thrillers.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Second Book Won't Let Down, August 1, 2001

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Megan (Tulsa, OK USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Haunted (Fingerprints, Book 2) (Paperback)

OK, so now that you've read Fingerprints #1-Gifted Touch, go to the bookstore, buy book #2, read it. It's just as good as the first. Rae Voight is just getting used to her powers. Now how do you make a series about a girls who can read fingerprints more suspenseful than that? Add two people that are trying to kill her. Only Rae thinks that there is only one. And the one who kidnaps Rae's friends Jesse is not the same one that sets up a pipe bomb in the girl's bathroom as the reader will learn, but Rae doesn't. Rae has to find Jesse before it's too late, but Rae may be in more danger than she knows. This book gets an A+, and by the way, I didn't even read any mysteries before I read this series.