

There’s one thing about Kylie Brant’s Waking Evil that wouldn’t bother me if I read it as a stand-alone book, but that struck me as unfortunate since I read it as a follow-on to her Waking Nightmare. And she’d better hurry-historically the deaths have always come in threes, and another girl is about to disappear! It hardly helps her irritation that the locals don’t like talking to outsiders, and she ends up needing Devlin’s help to get them to open up to her. Ramsey has no interest whatsoever in paranormal explanations, and is nothing but irritated by handsome Devlin Stryker, a writer and parapsychologist determined to follow along as she conducts her investigation.

It seems the locals believe in a legend involving red mist and a curse, and the authorities are anxious to solve the brutal crime quickly before it becomes more of a media circus than it already has. She’s called in to help when a woman is found dead in Buffalo Springs, Tennessee. Ramsey Clark is a forensic investigator working with the infamous group dubbed the “mindhunters” by the media. Pros: Wonderful characters & mystery fascinating legendryĬons: Identity of killer insufficiently foreshadowed too many similarities between heroine of this book and heroine of last one
