Waking the Dead (Cafferty & Quinn) Hardcover Author: Visit Amazon's Heather Graham Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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"Graham deftly weaves elements of mystery, the paranormal and romance into a tight plot that will keep the reader guessing at the true nature of the killer's evil." -Publishers Weekly on The Unseen
"Suspenseful and dark. The culture and history surrounding San Antonio and the Alamo are described in detail. The transitions between past and present flow seamlessly, and the main characters are interesting and their connection to one another is believable." -RT Book Reviews on The Unseen
"If you like mixing a bit of the creepy with a dash of sinister and spine-chilling reading with your romance, be sure to read Heather Graham's latest.... Graham does a great job of blending just a bit of paranormal with real, human evil." -Miami Herald on Unhallowed Ground
"The paranormal elements are integral to the unrelentingly suspenseful plot, the characters
are likable, the romance convincing...."-Booklist on Ghost Walk
"Heather Graham knows what readers want."
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About the Author
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Heather Graham has written more than a hundred novels. She's a winner of the RWA's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Thriller Writers' Silver Bullet. She is an active member of International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America. For more information, check out her websites: TheOriginalHeatherGraham.com, eHeatherGraham.com, and HeatherGraham.tv. You can also find Heather on Facebook.
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- Series: Cafferty & Quinn
- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (March 25, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0778316122
- ISBN-13: 978-0778316121
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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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