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Book Title: The Ghosts of Thorwald Place by Helen Power
Category: Adult Fiction, 416 pages
Genre: Paranormal Mystery
Publisher: Camcat Books
Publication Date: October, 2022
Content Rating: PG +M: There isn't any particularly graphic content, but the story does revolve around a woman who is murdered, and there are some more mature topics touched on, primarily domestic abuse.
Book Description:
Trust No One. Especially Your Neighbors.
Rachel Drake is on the run from the man who killed her husband. She never leaves her safe haven in an anonymous doorman building, until one night a phone call sends her running. On her way to the garage, she is murdered in the elevator. But her story doesn’t end there.
She finds herself in the afterlife, tethered to her death spot, her reach tied to the adjacent apartments. As she rides the elevator up and down, the lives of the residents intertwine. Every one of them has a dark secret. An aging trophy wife whose husband strays. A surgeon guarding a locked room. A TV medium who may be a fraud. An ordinary man with a mysterious hobby.
Compelled to spend eternity observing her neighbors, she realizes that any one of them could be her killer.
Trust No One. Especially Your Neighbors.
Rachel Drake is on the run from the man who killed her husband. She never leaves her safe haven in an anonymous doorman building, until one night a phone call sends her running. On her way to the garage, she is murdered in the elevator. But her story doesn’t end there.
She finds herself in the afterlife, tethered to her death spot, her reach tied to the adjacent apartments. As she rides the elevator up and down, the lives of the residents intertwine. Every one of them has a dark secret. An aging trophy wife whose husband strays. A surgeon guarding a locked room. A TV medium who may be a fraud. An ordinary man with a mysterious hobby.
Compelled to spend eternity observing her neighbors, she realizes that any one of them could be her killer.
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Review
Rachel Drake, the protagonist of The Ghosts of Thorwald Place, is an agoraphobic. She is hiding from the killer of her husband. When she receives a phone call that thoroughly frightens her. She packs a bag and flees the apartment and heads to the garage in the apartment building, Thorwald Place, that she resides in. Her car has been parked for nine months. She never makes it to the car before she is grabbed from behind and strangled. This is just the beginning of the story.
It appears that Rachel is tethered in the afterlife to the elevator in the building, constantly pulled from floor to floor and room to room watching the living. Each of the residents hides a secret, a wife whose husband strays from the marriage, a surgeon who has a locked room in her apartment where she lives along with her son, a man who has a hobby, looking at the apartments across the street with his telescope, a teenager who has an interest in the afterlife and the devil, and a medium who may not be who he says he is.
Each time she is pulled into an apartment, she is able to see more into her neighbors' lives. She is also trying to figure out who killed her, her best friend Catalina who has temporarily moved into the building to try to figure out who killed her friend, with the help of Rachel's brother-in-law who has moved into Rachel's apartment with the explanation that he is there to try to figure out who killed Rachel. Rachel can't have contact with any of these people because she is, well she is dead.
I love a good ghost story and this one is right up there with the best. The writing is top notch, and the plot is a new twist on a ghost story. This one kept me turning the pages. I loved it and highly recommend it! 4 stars!
I received a copy of this book for review purposes only.
Meet the Author:
Helen Power is obsessed with ghosts. She spends her free time watching paranormal investigation TV shows, hanging out in cemeteries, and telling anyone who’ll listen about her paranormal experiences. She is a librarian living in Saskatoon, Canada, and has several short story publications, including ones in Suspense Magazine and Dark Helix Press’s Canada 150 anthology, “Futuristic Canada”. The Ghosts of Thorwald Place is her first novel.
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Helen Power is obsessed with ghosts. She spends her free time watching paranormal investigation TV shows, hanging out in cemeteries, and telling anyone who’ll listen about her paranormal experiences. She is a librarian living in Saskatoon, Canada, and has several short story publications, including ones in Suspense Magazine and Dark Helix Press’s Canada 150 anthology, “Futuristic Canada”. The Ghosts of Thorwald Place is her first novel.
connect with the author: website ~ twitter ~ facebook ~ instagram ~ goodreads ~ bookbub
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