Ghosts of the Past

by Matthew Ledrew

Xander Drew faces off against another Shifter of immense power and destruction as a ghost from the past -- an experiment gone very, very wrong -- returns to bring dread and death to the people of Coral Beach, Maine. In the chaos a young girl goes missing and the entire township -- friend and enemy alike -- must band together to find her. Not for the faint of heart. Download the book that reviewers rave is "the darkest book in the Coral Beach Casefiles series!"

186 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2010

About the author

Matthew LeDrew has written over twenty novels, some of which have gone on to become Canadian and international bestsellers.

Since 2007 he has traveled all over Canada promoting his work as well as teaching seminars on writing and publishing.

He currently holds a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant and an ArtsNL Professional Projects Grant for the completion of his first two Newfoundland-set novels, a treasure-hunt novel and a literary fiction novel exploring toxicity within the Newfoundland arts scene, respectively.

He holds an Honours Degree in English from the Memorial University of Newfoundland with a minor in Anthropology. He studied Journalism at College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville, Newfoundland. He has worked with Transcontinental Publishing as well as student-youth magazine The Troubadour.

He has been called "the face of Newfoundland Genre writing" and is one of the most successful authors working and living in his province today.

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like how Matthew says in the From the Author section, this book goes to such an incredibly dark place. This is the storm that was hinted at coming in the last book and it doesn't disappoint. It is not a long book, but the timeline that is given keeps you turning pages and devouring the story to try and figure out how things end up the way they do before you get to the ending that is briefly viewed at the beginning of the book. Parts of it make you want to weep for the loss of innocence, but then there is at least one major part that keeps you crying out for blood as the climax reaches an amazing high. I feel it leaves you with a need to find out how things go from here and I have to admit I was left with tons of questions that require reading on in the series to find the answers for.