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August 9, 2016
Ghosts Help Ghost Whisperer !!
A Review of
Blue Cole, Immediate
Dead (Indie Gypsy, 2015)
215
pp $14.95 ISBN: 978-06942415061
Reviewer: Forrest
W. Schultz
In the famous television series, the Ghost Whisperer helps the
ghosts. The reverse situation occurs in Blue Cole's
latest novel, where the ghost whisperer Michael Bennett is a
homicide detective who, as soon as he arrives at the crime scene, talks
to the ghost of the victim in order to get information to help him identify the
murderer. He needs to do so quickly because the ghost only stays there
for a short time, which is what is referred to in the book's title. In
this story Bennett faces an especially tough challenge in attempting to identify
the serial killer who is murdering Atlanta's doctors, while at the same time
trying to deal with "baggage" from his past, and in attempting
to get along with his new partner, a sharp attractive young woman named
Sandy Cooper. The story is a good read just as a crime novel, and it is
especially interesting because of the ghost whisperer feature. It is a
worthy successor to his debut novel, Sleeping Sickness, published
in 2014. Cole, who lives in Coweta County and belongs to the Coweta
Writers Group, has joined in the book writing/publishing boom which is sweeping
across the Southside and producing some of our nation's best new
writers. Information is available on his website www.bluecole.com.
