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Ghosts Help Ghost Whisperer !! -- Review of A. Blue Cole's "Immediate Dead"

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Reviewer: Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258

 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.   



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