The Joining

The novel opens with a nearly naked FBI agent thumping down into the front lobby of the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC, arguably one of the most haunted cities in the world and confronts our undercover female detective, Carol Ainsworth, acting as the manager while two mafia families are about to check in for a wedding. But it quickly takes off as one mafia member is found hanged in his room, but what appears to be a ghost. Carol's nephew is abducted, as an elderly psychic, Agnes Van...