- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; paperback / softback edition (4 Aug 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141014091
- ISBN-13: 978-0141014098
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 665,486 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Boston private investigator Alex Rourke is looking forward to the weekend. He's heading to Vermont to visit his girlfriend, and also plans to do some checking on his latest missing person: a young man named Adam Webb who made the same journey, and never came back. But the truth about Adam Webb isn't the only secret buried in the Green Mountain woods. Hikers have gone missing, a prostitute has been murdered and something sinister is happening in the ghost-town of North Bleakwater. It soon becomes clear that in the mountains, who you trust can means the difference between life and death. And Alex will have to make decisions with his heart as well as his head. Because a single bullet is about to blow his world to pieces.
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John Rickards is also the author of Winter's End, which introduces private investigator Alex Rourke.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thought this was a good book, particularly from a new author. I haven't read his first book, but if this is anything to go by, I will do.
Touch of Ghosts had me hanging on not wanting to put it down when I new I had to turn in for the night and had a decent unusual twist at the end...
Touch of Ghosts had me hanging on not wanting to put it down when I new I had to turn in for the night and had a decent unusual twist at the end...
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Alex Rourke is believable and human. In this second book he finds himself in a bleak landscape with a murder and a disappearance to solve. The atmosphere is terrific and so is the pace. I couldn't put it down. also, the ending, unlike so many crime novels, is utterly surprising yet not merely conjured up as an afterthought. A writer to watch.
Format:Paperback
This is the first book I have read by this author and as pointed out by another reviewer the kind of spooky sub-plot - became just that - kind of; because nothing happened with it. I found the pace slow and lead character dull and it just didn't get off the ground for me at all. It's also a little disconcerting to think that some bloke can turn up, gain a little sympathy and be allowed access to information, crime scenes, stakeouts and whatever else he wants to go to.
Whilst I understand the need for the lead character to become involved in the murder hunt I felt no passion or desire. Perhaps it was just a little too deep for me and would suit someone who enjoys a slower pace of book with no sparks.
Whilst I understand the need for the lead character to become involved in the murder hunt I felt no passion or desire. Perhaps it was just a little too deep for me and would suit someone who enjoys a slower pace of book with no sparks.
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A not very thrilling thriller.
This is the first book I have read by this author. The précis is - an ex FBI guy who is now a private investigator [the narrator] tries to find out who killed his... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Suze
Bland
Private Investigator Alex Rourke is the voice of the book and although not as 'hard-boiled' as the Mike Hammer type detective, the short, sharpish sentences reminded me of that... Read more
Published on 13 July 2009 by Helen Simpson
Touch of Death
Alex Rourke is not a man that you want to get close to as according to form you will end up dead. Five years ago his parents were murdered causing him to have a nervous breakdown... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2008 by Sam
Disappointing
I started this book with high expectations, and finished it wishing I'd read something else.
The story follows Private Investigator Alex Rouke as he tries to find those... Read more
Published on 23 May 2005
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