The Ghost Who Fed Them Bones

by Tim Roux

Alice, who was a mere teenager when she was murdered, has returned in spectral form to prevent further brutal killings. For that she needs a living accomplice, a role the 21 year old Paul Lambert steps into with some trepidation. Having been clairvoyant all his life, he is used to dealing with ghosts, but this one is particularly driven and also exceptionally beautiful and seductive, so he is soon doing her bidding to a much greater extent than he ever intended. However, in time it becomes apparent that Alice is working to quite a different agenda from the one she is laying out before Paul. It isn't just a case of his disinterring her rotting body and fingering her killer, not by any means. For a start, there is a vengeful maniac who has to be stopped she hasn't quite got round to mentioning yet. Then there is the fact that she isn't the only ghost with an attitude out a-haunting either. Love, death and the supernatural: it's going to be quite a summer.

246 pages, Paperback

First published December 22, 2011

About the author

(That 'date of death' category threw me. What if you don't know yet?)

I am a writer, editor and publisher. I have written ten books, the most acclaimed of which are 'The Dance of the Pheasodile', 'Missio' and 'Girl on a Bar Stool'. The least acclaimed is 'Fishing, for Christians' (I still like it), and then there is one in-between 'The Blue Food Revolution' which is me in flat out magical realist mode and which is met with either absolute love or absolute suck-on-the-end-of-this-barrel hatred.

I have allowed my quill to blunt and my inkwell to dry while I run Night Reading (a community for independent authors with 400+ members) and Night Publishing (the associated publishing house with 50+ signed authors).

However, I do have a couple of books planned, so should the Internet go down globally for about 6 months, they will probably get written (so long as there is still electricity - I am not writing them by hand or typing them).

Reviews

[Bryndis · Rating 1 out of 5]

The third line used "gay" as an insult. I am neither a poorly socialized elementary school student nor a person who is likely to get all that interested in a character that sounds like one, so I didn't bother reading further.

Perhaps the character in question matures later in the book, but with so many books that don't start that way to choose from, I will probably never find out.

[Ashley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very interesting ghost story about a reluctant clairvoyant psychic who can not only feel the presence of ghosts, but who can also speak to them. He encounters the ghosts that are trapped and or inhabiting various different historical places and the interactions he has with them are amusing, and attention-grabbing. He has to balance his life with that of someone who sees the dead. And then, he meets a girl. A ghost girl. It was a very sweet story, one about love being able to take different forms. I liked the way the author wrote the story, and I liked the way the story developed. If anything, I could say the book was a little anti-climactic - but, then again, that may be the author's style. Overall I enjoyed the novel.

[Cassie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Such an odd book. The ending was rather abrupt to say the least.

[Lindsay]

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