Poltergeist (Greywalker Series #2)

by Kat Richardson

Overview

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Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died-for two minutes. Now she's a Greywalker-walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "strange" cases.

In the days leading up to Halloween, Harper's been hired by a university research group that is attempting to create an artificial poltergeist. The head researcher suspects someone is faking the phenomena, but Harper's investigation reveals something else entirely-they've succeeded.

And when one of the group's members is killed in a brutal and inexplicable fashion, Harper must determine whether the killer is the ghost itself, or someone all too human.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451461506
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/07/2007
Series:	Greywalker Series , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kat Richardson lives on a sailboat in Seattle with her husband, a crotchety old cat, and two ferrets. She rides a motorcycle, shoots target pistol, and does not own a TV.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Harper Blaine is "a great heroine."
-New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris

"A thoroughly modern and utterly enjoyable supernatural thriller."
-Crimespree Magazine

"Fascinating."
-Locus

Editorial Reviews

Harper Blaine is "a great heroine."
-New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris

"A thoroughly modern and utterly enjoyable supernatural thriller."
-Crimespree Magazine

"Fascinating."
-Locus

From the Publisher

Contemporary urban-fantasy noir, the second case (Greywalker, 2006) for Richardson's Seattle-based psychic PI Harper Blaine. Following a near-death experience, Harper became a Greywalker, with the ability to see and enter a paranormal dimension inhabited by ghosts and other, much nastier things. This time out, Harper's client is creepy psychology professor Gartner Tuckman; he's set up a psychological experiment in which he claims to have artificially generated a poltergeist-at least, the experiment's group members believe they have. Tuckman helped their belief along by inserting his own operative, Mark Lupoldi, into the group's seances to produce table rappings and rockings and other poltergeist-like phenomena. And Tuckman admits that he selected the group members because their personalities would clash and strike sparks. However, the experiment's now out of hand, producing hauntings far above the scale predicted by Tuckman. And when Harper examines the room, she finds evidence of genuine paranormal energies. Then events take a sinister turn: Lupoldi turns up dead, brutally smashed against the wall of his apartment. With no apparent motive, Harper-barely distracted by Seattle PD detective Rey Solis, not to mention her own on-again, off-again boyfriend Will Novak, currently sidelined in London-investigates the group members, beginning with Tuckman himself. But what if the poltergeist is real, and as powerful and frenzied as it appears? Harper will need all her wits and the expert assistance of high-ranking, intimidating vampire Carlos to crack the case. A plodding installment, with no significant plot or narrative tension, and little attempt to probe the further mysteries of theparanormal.

Kirkus Reviews