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Phantom Evil (Krewe of Hunters #1)

by Heather Graham (Goodreads Author)

3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 · rating details · 2,147 ratings · 235 reviews

A secret government unit is formed under the oversight of Adam Harrison, famed paranormal investigator. The six members he's gathered know a little of the otherworldly—each has honed a psychic talent of their own.Jackson Crow, part English, part Cheyenne, heads the group. Haunted by his experience with an ancestral ghost who saved his life as a child, and the recent murder...more

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Published March 29th 2011 by Mira

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Sep 26, 2011 Bonnie rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller, pn-romance, ghosties, adult

3.5 stars

Phantom Evil is the first in a new series by Heather Graham; the Krewe of Hunters.

The Storyline
When the Louisiana state Senator’s wife is found dead after an apparent suicide, her husband requests a closer investigation of sorts when he suspects that ghosts were involved in her death. Jackson Crow heads the paranormal investigation team which consists of him and 6 other members who each have their own psychic abilities. The investigation seems to show that the Senators wife didn’t in fa...more

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Apr 03, 2011 Cynthia rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-read-in-2011

Pass the beignets and latte please.

This a light hearted book about a grim topic…..murder. Jackson Crow heads a team of uniquely talented paranormal investigators. They head to New Orleans to solve the murder of a local senator’s wife. The local police have ruled her tumble from the upstairs balcony of their reportedly ghost infested mansion a suicide sighting her grief over the recent death of her young son. There is also a love story between Jackson and his co-worker Angela.

The book is enterta...more

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Nov 25, 2011 A. rated it 1 of 5 stars

This is primarily a romance novel. When the two main characters fall into bed within 48 hours of meeting and there are two explicit sex scenes it is easy to see what the focus is on. I wish I had realized Mira is an imprint of Harlequin before I bought it.

I picked this book up for the paranormal mystery that the blurb promises, in post Katrina New Orleans no less. There is upfront an emphasis on the Senator's wife being in a locked and security alarmed house when she supposedly jumps from her ba...more

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Jan 02, 2012 Felicia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-read, kindlepurchase2011

Bought for Myself
Book Club Pick
Overall Rating 4.00
Story Rating 4.25
Character Rating 3.75

NOTE: Phantom Evil is classified I think as a Romantic Suspense. I would classify it more as a Mystery/Thriller with some paranormal leanings. There is some romance but it is not the main focus of the story.

What I Loved: This was one fantastically twisty tale that kept me on the edge of my seat. I was never quite sure if it was the ghosts or real-live evil people that committed the murder that the "Krewe of H...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Kelly Moran rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-reviews

Six members are recruited to join a secret government unit to investigate paranormal cases. Jackson Crow heads the group, and is himself haunted by an experience from childhood. Skeptical, he can't help but wonder if this unit is more a punishment than anything else. Angela Hawkins has hidden her abilities since childhood. Now asked to embrace her gift, she finds herself with more than she bargained for. The team heads to a historic mansion in New Orleans where a senator's wife has committed sui...more

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Aug 02, 2012 Kristen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Heather Graham is a solid author, who writes entertaining, exciting books with a supernatural twist. They are dependable interesting stories with good characters and decent suspense.

This was the first in a new series by Graham about an eclectic band of ghost-hunters formed into a team by shadowy paranormal expert Adam Harrison. The team will go wherever they are needed to investigate situations that may involve paranormal happenings.

In this case, the wife of a U.S. senator, distraught over the r...more

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Jan 25, 2012 Criticalmick rated it 1 of 5 stars

Pheeble!*

The Heather Graham who writes bestsellers may be "The Original Heather Graham," but I am willing to bet that Heather Graham the actress could toast generic white bread with more style and engagement than this sorry excuse for a thriller.

Graham has churned out an average of five novels every years for the past thirty years. How much originality is left? Imagine a high school junior staggering down Bourbon Street. "Gee whiz, I shouldn't have drank those six hand gernades. And all those sh...more

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Oct 12, 2011 Ashley Dawn rated it 5 of 5 stars

After his last case, Jack Crow expects to get a desk job with mainly paperwork pushing responsibilities. Instead, Adam Harrison gives him the task of heading a new unit, with six unique members who are to solve the murder or suicide of a senator’s wife. Jack is a skeptic and yet he has had several unexplainable experiences that have saved him and others.
The senator is convinced his wife didn’t commit suicide as the police have determined, though they recently suffered the loss of their young son...more

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Sep 28, 2011 Kimberly rated it 4 of 5 stars

I am really enjoying the ghost books by Graham. This one was no exception. When the Senator appears to have committed suicide Adam Harrison send in his new government team Krewe of Hunters. The team has never met and when Jackson (leader) meets Angela (cop) the chemistry is not immediately there... especially since on first sight she is digging up 100 year old bones... but there is just something about them that feels like they need to connect and so they do. I found it a little hard to get into...more

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Aug 19, 2011 Y rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, paranormal, mystery-crime-thriller-suspense, setting-usa-la, ghosts

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Hmm...2.5 stars.

The truths behind the murder mystery were pretty entertaining, and while I really couldn't bring myself to give much of a damn about the crew (krewe? bzzah? I was listening to the audiobook, so spellings are lost on me) besides Jackson and Angela, they weren't terribly annoying as characters.

Problems: it takes forever for the book to become interesting. The prologue starts out with a bang, then the crew comes in to uncover the mystery of a senator's wife's murder, and they then p...more

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Jun 28, 2011 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Heather Graham is one of my favorite adult paranormal authors! I think her books are spooky and fun to read and Phantom Evil is no exception!

Jackson Crow is recruited by Adam Harrison (whom you will recognize if you've ever read any of Graham's other series) to head up a unique team after losing members from his old team. Jackson is not sure if this is a promotion or a demotion but decides to go along with it and heads to New Orleans to meet his new team and try to solve the question of whether...more Heather Graham is one of my favorite adult paranormal authors! I think her books are spooky and fun to read and Phantom Evil is no exception!

Jackson Crow is recruited by Adam Harrison (whom you will recognize if you've ever read any of Graham's other series) to head up a unique team after losing members from his old team. Jackson is not sure if this is a promotion or a demotion but decides to go along with it and heads to New Orleans to meet his new team and try to solve the question of whether a Senator's wife committed suicide or was murdered.

Once in New Orleans, Jackson meets Andy, the detective in charge of the case. While at the police department, another team member, Angela arrives. Jackson returns to the Senator's house to find Angela digging up the bones to a body in the basement. From there, the story speeds up as the other members of the team arrive and the whole team discovers that they each have some talent of speaking with or seeing the dead.

The house has it's own sordid history of murder and tragedy. The Senator wants to know whether his wife, distraught after the loss of their only child, jumped to her death or whether ghosts killed her. There were many avenues and characters to check out and that had me guessing until the very end!

The romance between Angela and Jackson was pretty predictable (especially if you are familiar with Graham) but was still fun and sexy. In fact, by the end of this series, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole team was paired up into couples.

I loved the setting! New Orleans is obviously a perfect place for a haunted story and the author does an amazing job in describing the city so you feel that you are right in the middle of things. The characters are well developed as well and while some of the parts seem a little over the top, well...it is about ghosts right?

I really enjoyed this fast read! I think it was well developed and loved that it kept you guessing until the very end. I will be picking up the other two in this series for sure!(less)

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May 07, 2011 Bookmom rated it 3 of 5 stars

Much beloved Senator Holloway asks for help to determine if his wife might have been killed by ghosts instead of committing suicide, as ruled by the cops by jumping off of a second story balcony in their well known haunted New Orleans home. Jackson Crow, a man with his own paranormal experiences that he tries to deny, is asked to lead a new federal team to investigate the closed case. While he requires proof that the paranormal exists outside of an imaginative mind, the group soon comes to reali...more Much beloved Senator Holloway asks for help to determine if his wife might have been killed by ghosts instead of committing suicide, as ruled by the cops by jumping off of a second story balcony in their well known haunted New Orleans home. Jackson Crow, a man with his own paranormal experiences that he tries to deny, is asked to lead a new federal team to investigate the closed case. While he requires proof that the paranormal exists outside of an imaginative mind, the group soon comes to realize that not only ghosts, but a very evil presence is in the home. But can a ghost push someone off a balcony? The mystery also investigates humans who could be responsible.

All members of the new team have experience or abilities to help in the investigation. Angela Hawkins is a cop that can see the dead. Jake has computer hacker skills but also has an easy time finding out information by infiltrating groups. Jenna is a nurse that had experience with at least one ghost. Will is an illusionist, so he knows how to spot a hoax. Whitney has done paranormal filming, but most importantly her great-grandmother is a voodoo priestess who gives the team a lot of information. And we don’t find out until practically the end of the book that Jackson’s ability is to make other people’s abilities stronger.

This is my first book by this author so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I thought the mystery itself was pretty good. The ghost and evil presence aspect was interesting and lots of twists with the humans investigated. There is a romance between Jackson and Angela that felt somewhat forced at the beginning, but does get better as the story evolves.

But some of the story felt contrived. One avenue to check out seemed to come out of left field, as if a portion of the story had been edited and we’re now missing something that would have led to the idea. Jackson and Angela are the first two team members to meet, and there’s some friction between them for perhaps the first 24 hours. But all of the other members who come on board are happy to be there and they’re one big happy family as soon as they meet. Really?

If this is the first book in a new series, hopefully the team members will seem more realistic in future books. We really don’t know much about most of them at this point.

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Apr 12, 2011 Beverly rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This was an edge of the seat thriller, ghost story with a romance on the side! The characters are wonderful and the setting is fantastic. I fell in love with the characters in the first few pages and couldn't wait to find out what happened next. The author takes the reader through the wringer with the emotional rollercoaster that is this story. This is a story of good vs. evil, life vs. death, real vs. unreal, natural vs. supernatural and the power of goodness and love. If you enjoy...more

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Mar 25, 2011 Judy & Marianne from Long and Short Reviews rated it 5 of 5 stars

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve read a book that I didn’t want to put down, and then thought about when I couldn’t read it. “Phantom Evil” is that kind of book. It called to me, tempting me to stop doing those things I must and instead sit and read. I read late into the night and resented the fatigue that finally caused me to set the book aside. I was simply intrigued by this book, both by the premise and by the characters.

Ms. Graham first and foremost did a great job with her group of s...more It’s been a long, long time since I’ve read a book that I didn’t want to put down, and then thought about when I couldn’t read it. “Phantom Evil” is that kind of book. It called to me, tempting me to stop doing those things I must and instead sit and read. I read late into the night and resented the fatigue that finally caused me to set the book aside. I was simply intrigued by this book, both by the premise and by the characters.

Ms. Graham first and foremost did a great job with her group of six investigators, all of whom were both distinct individuals and truly interesting people. Though they all had the commonality of a belief in the paranormal due to brushes with such throughout their lives, they were not all deeply into “woo-woo”. In fact, their belief in the truth of ghosts and such made them more skeptical of claims of haunting. Fascinating.

The circumstances surrounding Regina Holloway’s death – did a ghost push her or did she jump? – were only one of several mysteries this book tackles. We have a dark evil, ghosts of children, a cult, and so much more. All these threads are deeply interwoven and, when our investigators tug at one, sometimes others came unraveled.

I absolutely loved trying to puzzle together the clues as they were uncovered. Which were real clues? Which mattered to the case and which were red herrings? I was so pleased that we were only given the points-of-view of our investigators and weren’t allowed to see into the minds of others. I dislike reading mysteries when we’re allowed to either know whodunit or see into the mind of the antagonist.

The connection between the six investigators was instant and believable and I truly hope Ms. Graham has future books planned for all of them. In this book, the main protagonists are Jackson, the team leader, and Angela, the investigator who seems to trigger all the paranormal events that occur. They’re the first two to meet, and it’s evident there is an attraction between them, one that I hoped they’d act upon.

This book never quite crossed the line into “horror”, but had its moments of evil and terror. Still, the focus remained on the investigation, and it’s primarily a mystery with romantic elements. Well written, well plotted, evenly and quickly paced, “Phantom Evil” hit all my happy buttons and left every part of me well satisfied: the mystery lover and the romantic.

I do admit that the ending felt a smidge rushed, but it didn’t dispel my feelings of good-will toward this book, and certainly won’t keep it off my keeper shelf.

If you’re looking for a strong mystery that’ll keep you guessing to the end, if you like your romantic suspense with a touch of “woo woo” and a satisfying ending I highly recommend you pick up a copy of Phantom Evil.

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Mar 23, 2011 Norma rated it 5 of 5 stars

Right after the Civil War ended, Madden C. Newton bought the house and started his savage killing spree. It is said that he killed more people then Jack the Ripper.

Long after Madden’s death, people started saying that the house was haunted. More and more people died. Was it just coincidence or was there something sinister going on?

Senator Holloway and his wife Regina finally get to move into the house of their dreams. However, it ends up to be a house made of nightmares.

I was gripped from the f...more

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Mar 08, 2011 Julia rated it 5 of 5 stars

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What could be more exciting than spending time in New Orleans? How about spending time in a Haunted Mansion IN New Orleans!? Well, in Heather Graham’s Phantom Evil, a brand new group of Paranormal Investigators begin their first group effort in just that, a haunted mansion.

With the death of the current owners wife, a special team is put together to “put to rest” the cause of death. Team leader Jackson Crow has a job ahead of him bringing together a group of...more

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Jan 30, 2011 Sarah rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult-fiction-reviews

I am looking forward to more books with this new team, as I do enjoy the paranormal investigator series, though I hope that the rest of the titles in the series are more like her previous works and perhaps more polished editorially.

Don't get me wrong, I am a fan of Heather Graham, but this book had some issues. I felt like it needed one or two more visits from the copy editor before it went out to publication to make it equal to her other works. There was a major slip up midway into the book wh...more

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Jul 26, 2012 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: audio-book, contemporary, crime, first-in-series, suspense

This was a really well done book. Heather Graham is able to draw the reader in to a mystery while throwing out enough clues so as to paint many red herrings. Ultimately though, despite having the possibility for the mystery to be cut and dry, she excels at twisting and turning the suspects until everyone is around on their head. Then the climax is reached, the bad guy(s) explains everything and you're left shaking your head at the answers.

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Feb 03, 2012 Melbourne on my mind rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit, paranormal, crime, 2012

When I got this home from the library, I noticed that it's published by a division of Harlequin. Oh dear... I read the blurb and was all "Huh. Secret government agency hunting ghosts. Could be interesting." The minute I saw who the publisher was, my estimations went downhill.

But it wasn't as bad as I expected. Sure, there was the obligatory "I've only known you 24 hours but I feel like we're soulmates, let's boff" side to it, which did very little to advance the plot. Also, there's not enough mo...more

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May 10, 2011 Michelle♥ rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: library, should-have-never-picked-up

So I saw this in the library under the "Hot Picks/New for May!" banner. And I picked it up. Man am I sorry I did!

Ok, so the prologue really creeped me out. Like that was just plain SCARY! And I am not one for the horror genre at all!

This kind of reminded me a little of The Shining and The Haunting, you know that moviewith Catherine Zeta-Jones? Yeah, totally cheesy, right?

So what actually drew me in was the fact that the federal government sets up this investigation team, like an advanced tech-sa...more So I saw this in the library under the "Hot Picks/New for May!" banner. And I picked it up. Man am I sorry I did!

Ok, so the prologue really creeped me out. Like that was just plain SCARY! And I am not one for the horror genre at all!

This kind of reminded me a little of The Shining and The Haunting, you know that moviewith Catherine Zeta-Jones? Yeah, totally cheesy, right?

So what actually drew me in was the fact that the federal government sets up this investigation team, like an advanced tech-savy modern day ghost busters to investigate the New Orleans Senator's wife killing/suicide. The Senator swears up and down that it's not possible for the wife to have killed herself even though she lost their son just recently and could not get over the death of their child.

So I read the prologue while inthe library and was hooked! And then it became so cheesy and it kind of felt like a high schooler's imagination and writing style, with exclamation points at the end of every sentence or conversation. Also, the whole romance was just kind of thrown in there for the readers. I don't know who Graham was trying to appeal to, but it didn't work for me.

There was a bit of a twist at the end, but after awhile I was getting tired of the characters. And to be honest, I was grateful that she kept identifying the characters as Blake, the bodyguard, because I was not connecting with them in ANY WAY! I would have forgotten that Blake was the bodyguard and not the chauffer. And also, the dual narrative drove me INSANE! It was fine when there were breaks in the middle of the chapters, which were monotonously and unremittingly long, whne you can actually tell the difference of whose head we were looking out of, but in the middle of paragraphs and conversations, floating back and forth between the two, Angela or Jackson? Not cool.

I do have to say that I am kind of creeped out with the ghost story though. That Mad C. Whatever did freak me out and I'm wanting to watch like cartoons right now, because you know those suction cup shelves you can place in your shower to hold all your soaps and shampoos and whatever? Yeah mine just totally fell after I walked by the bathroom after I finished this book and yelled "man this sucked!" Yeah, now I'm officially creeped out by ghosts and all their stories, especially now that my cat, who is BLACK by the way, it just staring at the corner in my den where I am.

I am spooked so I have to give her credit for that, and I was interested in what happened and how Regina ended up being dead. But overall I was more curious about the beginning of the house and how Mad C. Whatever came to be. I wanted to know more about those killings and missing people than what was actually going on with the politics and that crazy cult church and Aryans. Uh...random! I am no way interested in what happens with the team or Jackson and Angela from here on out so I will NOT be picking up the next one in the series, let alone any other book written by Heather Graham.

Whatever. Done with the book and now onto much better, better things!(less)

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Nov 30, 2011 Tina rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-reads, romance-paranormal, mystery, thiller-suspense

A spooky Ghostbusters meets FBI crime thriller.

Jackson Crow is recruited by a powerful Gov't agent to head up an elite FBI unit. Jackson and his team are hand selected because they all have a touch of extra-sensory perception of the ghostly sort.

We meet Jackson the leader who is a skeptic even while he's had his own ghostly encounters. There is also Angela, a cop and the lone survivor or a plane crash when she was a child. She actually is a ghost magnet and also acts as a conduit to release res...more A spooky Ghostbusters meets FBI crime thriller.

Jackson Crow is recruited by a powerful Gov't agent to head up an elite FBI unit. Jackson and his team are hand selected because they all have a touch of extra-sensory perception of the ghostly sort.

We meet Jackson the leader who is a skeptic even while he's had his own ghostly encounters. There is also Angela, a cop and the lone survivor or a plane crash when she was a child. She actually is a ghost magnet and also acts as a conduit to release restless souls so they can cross over. Whitney is a visual medium expert whose genius with film can capture ghostly subjects. Will is an illusionist, Jenna is a nurse and Jake is computer hacker extraordinaire. All of them can sense presences.

The team's first case is to go to New Orleans to investigate the death of a Senator's wife. She lived in a house that was widely known to be haunted and the rumors are that she was terrified by a ghost and leapt to her death. Jackson is convinced that her death can be laid in purely human hands. But as they set up shop inside the house, Angela senses the restless ghosts who reside there.

The book is a nice little genre bender. I really enjoyed the different members of the team. Extra points given for the wide ranging diversity of the crew and the fact that they were not stupid. Nobody went anywhere alone (that was a Jackson rule), their electronics didn't fuzz out or stop working at critical moments. They discussed things through and allowed their deductions to follow logical progressions. They got along and worked well together, different members of the group interacted at different points so you got a sense of the team starting to gel. So basically, nothing eye-rolling happened.

There were two narratives that kinda-but-not-really dovetailed together. The ghost story and the evil history of the house and then the murder. The actual resolution of murder takes a star off the story because it was unnecessarily byzantine and there was a kitchen-sink feel to that part of the story (fundie Church cultists, Aryan nation racists, corrupt politicians...). But the ghost story was interesting and I found that part entertaining.

There is a romance that develops between Jackson and Angela. So romance readers also get a nice bonus as well.

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Jul 08, 2011 Erin rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book reminded me it has been too long since I have visited New Orleans- the sights, sounds, restaurants described all make me want to go back right this second. As for the book itself, I felt it was just ok.

The supernatural plot lines were the best - I felt that they were well written, and told a good story. Everything dealing with the house being haunted, the ghosts, the serial killer Newton- all were well done. I wish the rest of the book had been as good. However, there was just too much...more

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May 29, 2011 BJ rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: local-library, 2011, mysteries-suspense, series-more-than-3

"Phantom Evil" is the first in a sub-series titled Krewe of Hunters by Heather Graham. I call this a sub-series, because she has previously written several connected books with stories about Harrison Investigations, run by Adam Harrison. In "Phantom Evil," Adam Harrison is responsible for putting together a secret government investigative unit of seemingly random people who investigate crimes, which may or may not have some type of paranormal cause or relationship. This is Jackson and Angela's s...more

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Apr 22, 2011 Debbie rated it 4 of 5 stars

A distraught senator’s wife is found dead of an apparent suicide in the garden of her supposed haunted house. Wanting answers albeit discreetly the senator calls on a newly formed government team run by Adam Harrison and led by enigmatic Jackson Crow. This assignment may be just what the doctor order for Jackson after the tragedy that was his last case with the FBI. Now he’s teamed up with 5 specially equipped people to handle all things paranormal and what better place to test that theory and t...more A distraught senator’s wife is found dead of an apparent suicide in the garden of her supposed haunted house. Wanting answers albeit discreetly the senator calls on a newly formed government team run by Adam Harrison and led by enigmatic Jackson Crow. This assignment may be just what the doctor order for Jackson after the tragedy that was his last case with the FBI. Now he’s teamed up with 5 specially equipped people to handle all things paranormal and what better place to test that theory and the team then The Big Easy. Angela Hawkins is a trained policewoman from Virginia who at a young age had her first experience with paranormal activity when the plane her family was on crashed killing her parents and almost herself as well. She’s learned who to trust and who to stay away from and she’s learned about love and loss, but Jackson is more than what she’s expecting and maybe more than her heart can handle. But their attraction is hard to resist and there’s enough to worry about without complications of the heart there’s something in the house something not right could it be “Phantom Evil”.
Heather Graham always does a bang up job when she expertly mixes paranormal with romance, she always comes up with likeable and believable characters and even though the plot may be quite a bit outside the normal box she somehow makes her audience believers during the read. Well Phantom Evil is no different there’s enough from both worlds to excite any fan. She gives us a storyline that could be seen on any news show or headline and then she makes it more interesting by giving it a shade of otherworldly. She will take you to the French Quarter and Bourbon Street, introduce you to the characters who call it home and she’ll show you the real New Orleans through her descriptive narrative. Her characters are spot on, perfectly portrayed and infinitely important to the telling of the story from the Voodoo Priestess to the ghosts themselves. Her hero and heroine are two people in desperate need of one another and she brings them together with earth moving and fireworks and keeps them together with honesty and compassion and of course with heat, because the love scenes are as hot as the humidity is high in a New Orleans summer.
So take a stroll downtown, blow the sugar off a beignet while you enjoy a cup of pecan coffee and batten down the hatches of your emotions as this paranormal, psychological thriller will take you on a frightening journey, one that will leave you breathless when the ride is over.
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Feb 06, 2011 Chibineko rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: harlequin, netgalley, paranormal-romance

I'll admit that Graham's work has kind of suffered over the last few years, with some of her books not even holding a candle to how wonderful the earlier books were. (I don't know of many people who liked Dust to Dust, a title that has sat around on my bookstore shelves gathering well, dust.) She's released some stuff that's been pretty decent, but again- not stuff that's along the quality lines of her earlier releases. I almost passed this book up until I realized that it was an Adam Harrison b...more

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May 02, 2013 Anita Truong rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime, ghosts, mystery, paranormal, 2013-reading-challenge, book-one, characters-likable, e-book-library, enjoyable, romance, suspense, romance-sweet, romance-mature, romance-backseat

3.5 stars

I've had time to mull over the story and think about what it was that worked and didn't work for me, and honestly, while the book is enjoyable and I did like it, it wasn't an amazingly captivating experience. Nonetheless, it gave exactly what it set out to give: an intriguing mystery and crime thriller wrapped around history and ghostly happenings. In fact, the premise of ghosts and history intermingling really is a device that interests me a lot. Not to mention I even wanted to jot dow...more

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Jan 18, 2012 Jeff Barber rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

I hate to not like a piece of art, whether it be a book, a painting, or music. But sometimes, the art just doesn't touch me. Or worse, the piece will feel contrived, or mundane, or even feel like the artist didn't put a lot of effort into it.
I'm not going to blame Heather Graham of not putting effort into this book, but I will say that it didn't really ever grab me. From the start we get some interesting characters, but sadly, the more we learn about them the less interesting they become.
We hav...more

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Nov 02, 2011 Beanse rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: bloody-bad-books

I read this book but because I had previously read Heather Graham's "Flynn Brothers Triolgy" A series that I truly enjoyed. (Until the very end of the last book. Where it appeared to me that Ms. Graham smoked a fat one and wrote the ending. Not a true story... just a theory.) That part aside, it was fun to read.

Te plot was not interesting at all. The characters are constantly over explaining everything. And the ending was just really terrible.

When I was reading this book, I swear with my right h...more

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Apr 02, 2011 Brandy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: netgalley, nook, paranormal

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Phantom Evil is the first book in a new series by Heather Graham called Krewe of Hunters. A new team has been formed under the direction of Adam Harrison, a paranormal investigator. The leader, Jackson Crow is still hurting from a previous case that left a team member dead and is not sure what to think of this new assignment. While he has had a couple of possible brushes with the supernatural, he is very much a skeptic - convinced that living beings are the ones that inflict harm on others and t...more

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Aug 10, 2012 Keri rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed, 2012-read, heather-graham, romance-paranormal, romance-contemporary

I knew if I kept giving HG enough changes that eventually I would find one of her books that I liked. She writes paranormal with romance and that is a winning combination for me. Unfortunately in the past it didn't always work out. Really liked Krewe of Hunters and thought Jackson was a good fit. He came off as arrogant sometimes, but for an alpha male that isn't all bad. I think him and Angela jumped into bed a little quick, but I thought this Krewe was going to span several books, but it looks...more

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Also published as Heather Graham Pozzessere and Shannon Drake.

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Heather Graham majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write, working on short horror stories and romances. After some tria...more

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