Unhallowed Ground [Hardcover]

Heather Graham (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Mira (1969)
• ASIN: B002Q5L2CW
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,471,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

New York Times and USA Today best selling author, Heather Graham was born somewhere in Europe and kidnapped by gypsies when she was a small child. She went on to join the Romanian circus as a trapeze artist and lion tamer. When the circus came to South Florida, she stayed, discovering that she preferred to be a shark and gator trainer.

Not really.

Heather is the child of Scottish and Irish immigrants who met and married in Chicago, and moved to South Florida, where she has spent her life. (She has, at least, been to the Russian circus in Moscow, where she wished she was one of the incredibly talented and coordinated trapeze artists.) She majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write. Her first book was with Dell, and since then, she has written over one hundred and fifty novels and novellas including category, suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, horror, and Christmas family fare.

She is pleased to have been published in approximately twenty-five languages, and has had over seventy-five million books in print. She has been honored with awards from Walden Books, B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times, the Lifetime Achievement Award from RWA and more. Heather has also become the proud recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers. Heather has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, Mystery Book Club, People and USA Today and appeared on many newscasts including Today, Entertainment Tonight and local television.

Heather loves travel and anything that has to do with the water, and is a certified scuba diver. She also loves ballroom dancing. Each year she hosts the Vampire Ball and Dinner theater at the RT convention raising money for the Pediatric Aids Society and in 2006 she hosted the first Writers for New Orleans Workshop to benefit the stricken Gulf region. She is also the founder of "The Slush Pile Players", presenting something that's almost like entertainment for various conferences and benefits. Married since high school graduation and the mother of five, her greatest love in life remains her family, but she also believes her career has been an incredible gift, and she is grateful every day to be doing something that she loves so very much for a living.

Customer Reviews

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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Guilty Pleasure, October 5, 2009

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Jennifer A. Hanley "Historian" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unhallowed Ground (Mass Market Paperback)

I have read Queen Mean's review and thought I would take a moment to share my own thoughts. If you take the book on its own terms and remember that this is supposed to be light reading, it delivers on all counts. Its characters are quirky and the story is engaging. Are there aspects that are overly dramatic? Of course. That is what makes popular literature popular. Are there are few plot holes and misused phrases--definitely. Do they make the book unreadable? No.

As an historian (complete with PhD) I was a little excited to find a book whose main character has a master's in American History. Sarah McKinley's experiences in the archives, as a museum docent, and as a child history geek reminded me of my own experiences. In some ways, this book reinforced my desire to own a historic home complete with skeletons in the closest or walls whatever the case may be. It also made me want to visit St. Augustine and acquaint myself with its rich history and to re-visit my Seminole Wars history.

Ultimately, I enjoyed this book. It was a tad fluffy but it was exactly what I wanted a-- fun story to wile away a Sunday afternoon.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, light reading, October 17, 2009

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SVB (Castle Rock, CO. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unhallowed Ground (Mass Market Paperback)

Wow, there are some tough critics out there. Yes, the term "corpse magnet" is rather corny and used a bit too frequently, but the overall story is kind of fun and easy to read. If you are looking for a book that will compel you to sleep with your lights on and the dog on the bed then look elsewhere, but if you just want a light and easy read with some ghosts and mystery thrown in then you will probably enjoy this book. I am easily bored if books aren't engaging or interesting but had no trouble staying focused on this for a couple of nights.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay, but Graham has been on this ground before., November 14, 2009

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Deborah Verlen "Deborah" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unhallowed Ground (Mass Market Paperback)

If you read Heather Graham you know she interjects the paranormal in many of her writing lines or series (in this case the Harrison Investigations). This is an average read for a Graham book. She is a prolific writer so I don't want to spend my time going back through her list of books to find the one's that would fit the next sentence. BUT, this book seemed to be a compilation of many of her other books. The haunted house, the ghosts, the main characters etc. It seemed so familiar that I looked at the publication date a couple of times to make sure I hadn't read it before.

Others have rehashed the plot, so I won't. The city of St. Augustine, FL is the back drop for Caleb and Sarah's romance. The author does a good job of dropping in tidbits describing the city and its history to the point where you can visualize this old city and even be motivated to visit some day! She mentions Sarah is a historian, but then she has Sarah buying a house that she has loved forever--one would think Sarah would have taken the time to figure out the history. Caleb Anderson has a tie to the house and some psychic abilities; yet he also shows no curiosity as to why or how.

Compared to other books Ms. Graham has written in this series, I did feel she dropped the ball somewhat on the psychic aspects of her main characters. Both of them were evidently gifted with some abilities and you had Caleb denying it and Sarah totally unaware of her gifts. One would have thought since both of them were gifted, just being in the house Sarah purchased would have had little psychic brain farts going off!

This isn't a bad read, but it probably won't remain in your keep pile, more as a pass it along read!