Waking the Dead: A Cafferty and Quinn Story, Book 2 [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition] Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
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They say a painting can have a life of its own...
In the case of Ghosts in the Mind by Henry Sebastian Hubert, that's more than just an expression. This painting is reputed to come to life - and to bring death. The artist was a friend of Lord Byron and Mary Shelley, joining them in Switzerland during 1816, "the year without a summer". That was when they all explored themes of horror and depravity in their art....
Now, almost 200 years later, the painting appears in New Orleans. Wherever it goes, death seems to follow. Danielle Cafferty and Michael Quinn, occasional partners in solving crime, are quickly drawn into the case. They begin to make connections between that summer in Switzerland and this spring in Louisiana. Danni, the owner of an eccentric antiques shop, and Quinn, a private detective, have discovered that they have separate but complementary talents when it comes to investigating unusual situations.
Trying to blend their personal relationship with the professional lives they've stumbled into, they learn how much they need each other. Especially as they confront this work of art - and evil. The people in the portrait might be dead, but something seems to wake them and free them to commit bloody crimes. Cafferty and Quinn must discover what that is. And they have to destroy it - before it destroys them.
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- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 10 hours and 8 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Brilliance Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: March 25, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00IK1ABFK
Review Courtesy All Things Urban Fantasy
Those who spent years every Thursday with Elaine Benis will understand my fervent wish that she'd had a hand editing WAKING THE DEAD. Something about the use of exclamation points almost makes it inevitable. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind them in moderation - but that unfortunate habit carried over from the first novel. Since I can't help reading emphasis when I see them, it distracted.
The story itself is solid enough. I was unpleasantly reminded of Young Adult novel The Fine Art of Truth or Dare in the amount of time and book space spent fleshing out the life and career of a made up artist. Yes, the painting was integral to WAKING THE DEAD, but his anecdotal life stories as well as those of past murderers didn't add to the story. Stephen King can make that work...most of the time. In this story, it just felt like filler. Just as two trips to Geneva in a week felt like an unnecessary drawing out of the climax.
I did still enjoy reading about Quinn and Danni. Danni's sleep walking and sleep-painting continues to intrigue me and that carried over from the Let the Dead Sleep, but Quinn's ability (which I'm still trying to figure out) seems to have dropped off in WAKING THE DEAD. Not sure if that was intentional or if the plot in this book just didn't seem to lend itself to his "hypersenses." Something I didn't really like was the misdirection over their relationship at the end of the first book - them stating that they needed to slow things down. If that had continued into this book, fine. But it didn't. Outside of a mentioned three-week separation that happened in the interim between both books, they didn't waste a whole lot of time going fast again.
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I love Heather Graham’s books – most of the time. However, “Waking the Dead” was a tad disappointing for me. It wasn’t nearly half as scary as her “Krewe of Hunters” books, and the narrative dragged on through the middle part. The plot is very intriguing though – a painting, Ghosts in the Mind, is blamed for a series of murders. The painting itself looks innocent at first, but once one looks closer, the figures on the painting all have toys to kill people in their hands, and aren’t as innocent as they look. The painting was missing for a long time, and now it’s turned up, and what follows in its wake, are gruesome murders our main characters, Danielle Cafferty, and Michael Quinn, have to solve.
The main characters have interesting personalities. They’re very different, yet they match well together. Danni is calm, relaxed, intuitive, in tune with her own spirituality. Quinn is more down-to-earth, a hardboiled private detective who is as at home at a crime scene as he is in his own home. The whole plotline involving the painting was detailed, and intriguing.
What bothered me the most about this book, is how much they beat around the bush before they actually did something. Who is the villain? How will we catch him? There’s a lot of bouncing from one possible solution to the next to solve the case, which was annoying. When I thought they were on the right track, turned out it was something completely different. Some times this may add to the level of suspense for a book, but here it just made the plot drag on, and made the book at least a hundred pages longer than it should’ve been.
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