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The Touch of Ghosts (Paperback)

by John Rickards (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 304 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: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 330,182 in Books (See Bestsellers 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:
4.0 out of 5 stars Touch Of Ghosts, 7 Sep 2005
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...
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A gripping tale from an accomplished author., 9 Jan 2005
By Sally Spedding (Northamptonshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Touch of Ghosts (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.
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6 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 23 May 2005
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This review is from: The Touch of Ghosts (Hardcover)
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 responsible for killing the woman he loves. It's a very unexciting and unoriginal crime thriller.

I actually found myself getting increasingly irritated by this book. Half of it seems to have no relevance to the plot whatsoever, it's almost as if the author felt he needed to bulk it out a bit. Several of the suspects seem to be plucked out of thin air, there's a spooky sub-plot - or at least you think it's a sub-plot - that is never explained, not that that matters because the author seems to completely forget about it anyway. Even more annoying was the willingness of EVERYBODY (including police, doctors, suspects' girlfriends...) to give Alex all the confidential information he requires. Alex isn't exactly piecing together a great mystery here. The ending was pretty obvious from the start.

Suffice to say, I wouldn't recommend it.

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