Underground (Greywalker, Book 3) (Hardcover)

by Kat Richardson (Author)
Key Phrases: stun stick, Pioneer Square, Tall Grass, Grandma Ella (more...)

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“A great heroine.”
—New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris

Product Description
Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until she died—for two minutes. Now Harper is a Greywalker—walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she’s discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of “strange” cases.

Pioneer Square’s homeless are turning up dead and mutilated, and zombies have been seen roaming the underground—the city buried beneath modern Seattle. When Harper’s friend Quinton believes he may be implicated in the deaths, he persuades her to investigate. But the killer is no mere murderer—it is a creature of ancient legend. And Harper must deal with both the living and the dead to stop the monster and its master…unless they stop her first.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Roc Hardcover (August 5, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451462122
• ISBN-13: 978-0451462121
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #116,873 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This is item 3 in The Greywalker Series.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Third in the Greywalker Series, August 8, 2008

By	SciFiChick "www.SciFiChick.com" (Fishers, IN USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

After a near-death experience, Private Investigator Harper Blaine now has the ability to move between this world and the next. A place called the Grey. When her friend Quinton asks her to investigate a serial killer, Harper soon realizes that this is no ordinary killer. It's a monster from old lore. And with her unique abilities, Harper is the only one who can hunt it down.

With history and lore tied to Seattle's underground, this story is rich with ominous descriptives and suspense. Harper must deal with ghosts and zombies, which begin to interfere with her personal life. Shocking revelations, intense suspense, unique paranormal characters, and a mystery that keeps you guessing gives this urban fantasy more than its share of fun thrills. This series has continued to improve with each installment.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Angieville: UNDERGROUND, October 31, 2008

By	Angela Thompson "Angiegirl" (Rocky Mountains) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Okay, this series continues to entertain me much more than I initially expected it to. I was so pleased to get a copy of UNDERGROUND for my birthday and I immediately dived right in. It picks up shortly after the events of Poltergeist (Greywalker, Book 2) and Harper is still dealing both physically and emotionally with the fallout from her ghostbusting stint. Things with tall, blond, and lanky Will are less than stellar and distraction comes in the form of Harper's mysterious friend Quinton who shows up on her doorstep demanding she investigate a rather gruesomely dead body he ran across on the train tracks. It's not the first dead body to be found in a similar state in recent weeks and Harper and Quinton discover up close and personally that it won't be the last either. Together they traipse through the uncanny city underneath Seattle's streets in search of a mythical monster who may or may not be eating the city's homeless and may or may not be controlled by an ancient Native American god.

Once again, I simply love the way Kat Richardson describes Harper's Seattle. And this time around she's added Quinton's Seattle--a very different city altogether, populated by the homeless and the dissident, and located entirely underground. I've been wanting more on this particular character and storyline and UNDERGROUND provides a satisfying amount of info while still saving a few secrets for future installments. Just like Harper, I was sucked into the mysteries behind each underground inhabitant, particularly Quinton and just who he's hiding from and why. This book had a slightly grander feel than its predecessors by nature of the monster they're fighting and I loved the inclusion of Seattle's more unusual history as well as the Native American legend and language. Harper remains a likable, scrappy character who I look forward to following. If you enjoyed Greywalker (Greywalker, Book 1), make sure you pick this one up. Definitely my favorite Greywalker book thus far.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Harper Blaine Returns..., August 11, 2008

By	Shawn C. Fitzgerald (Connecticut) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Kat Richardson's third Greywalker novel,Underground once again features Seattle PI Harper Blaine.This time Harper helps her friend Quinton try to discover who or what is eating the homeless of Pioneer Square.Harper's search for answers will take her from the underground,to the vampire community,and finally to a Native American reservation.A solid and entertaining paranormal mystery.If you enjoy movies like The Sixth Sense or T.V.'s Ghost Whisperer you'll enjoy Harper Blaine who has the ability to see and talk to the dead.Likewise if you enjoy mysteries and hard boiled detectives with a twist of someting different look no further than the Greywalker series.