Ghost Detective by Scott William Carter
Myron Vale Investigations, Book 1
Publisher: Flying Raven Press (June 2013)
267 pages, eBook (provided by Author for review)
Book Rating: 4 Stars
Content Note: Includes Swearing, Infidelity and Violence
Myron Vale is about to leave on a much needed vacation when a ghost arrives seeking to hire him to find her murderer, suspecting it may have been her husband, and Myron is surprised to find her husband is the man who shot him in the head. In all honesty, I find the premise of this book a bit depressing. The idea that everyone who has ever lived and died here on earth, remains here in a new immortal form, visible only to a select few, but retaining all the flaws they had in life and unable to escape the cruelties of the world or the people in it that caused them grief, with no possibility of ever crossing over to something better, is not comforting. I did like the main character. Myron is an easy character to like. I felt bad for him in his problems dealing with his 'condition' as he calls it, as well as the tension between him and his deceased wife and the complicated nature of their relationship. I thought the murder mystery portion of the story was great, and I liked how Myron went about his 'detecting' in an easy, off-hand sort of way. I was glad to have the matter with his wife sufficiently settled, so he can move on from there in further adventures, and I look forward to reading the next book in this series!
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