ALL HALLOWS EVE 2011 – REVIEW : What’s A Ghoul To Do? by Victoria Laurie
What’s A Ghoul To Do? (Ghost Hunter Mystery #1)
by Victoria Laurie | Signet (April 2007)
Paperback: 292 pages | Paranormal Mystery
I’ve had this series on my shelf for a long time, and as it was All Hallow’s Eve and I fancied a mystery I thought it was a good time to start Victoria Laurie’s Ghost Hunter Mystery series.
I really enjoyed Laurie’s writing. It’s a nice easy writing style and the pages flew by pretty quickly. The characters are fun, especially MJ’s African Grey parrot who sits on her shoulder and chats away – sometimes saying very inappropriate but funny things.
M. J. herself is a lovely character and I connected with her straight away. She is a medium who can talk to the dead, but she’s created a business with her friend and partner, Gilley, by ghostbusting – sending spirits over to the other side. Sometimes this kind of job can be dangerous, which is what they found out when hired by sexy doctor and millionaire, Steven Sable.
M. J. and Gilley are hired by Steven to find out how his grandfather died, even though the police put it down as a suicide. But Steven doesn’t believe it and wants M. J. to talk to his grandfather’s ghost in the hope of finding out the truth. But things go a lot deeper than that and there are many twists and turns. I really didn’t know where this story would end up and enjoyed the fact that I really didn’t know ‘who dunnit’.
I did find that although I enjoyed M. J. and all the other characters, I would have liked a lot more ‘ghostbusting’. There just wasn’t enough of it in my opinion, which was disappointing. Much of the book is researching the mystery and following living people, rather than interacting with the ghosts.
VERDICT:
Overall, What’s A Ghoul To Do? is an entertaining read with fun and quirky characters. A really good start to a series and one that I will be continuing, with the next book in the series, Demon’s Are A Ghoul’s Best Friend.
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BOOKS IN SERIES ORDER
- What’s A Ghoul To Do?
- Demons Are A Ghoul’s Best Friend
- Ghouls Just Haunt To Have Fun
- Ghouls Gone Wild
- Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls
- Ghouls Interrupted
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8 Comments
So glad you liked it as I've had this book on the shelf for a while as well. Now I think I will have to pick it up sooner or later – preferably sooner!
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Great review! I've been meaning to check out this series and now I definitely have to. Thank you for sharing!
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sounds like a fun series. I'll have to check it out.
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I read the first two books in this series a couple of years ago, good review. I liked the quirky characters too.
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Mel – It's a cute mystery, I'm sure you'll like it
Amy – Thanks! I hope you enjoy it
Lisa – I'm looking forward to reading book two.
Laura – It was fun reading, definitely a series I will continue with
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I just started her 7th book Doom with A View in her Psychic Eye series but do have What's A Ghoul to Do, Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend, & Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun on my shelves here. Definitely plan to start the series once I finish the Psychic Eye one.
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I've read every books in this series for now and I really like it too ! I hope it will be the same for you too ! You're right it's really fun !
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You should definitely pick up her Psychic Eye series if you enjoyed this! The MC in that book, Abby, is hilarious!
I'm gonna start this series after I've finished the Psychic eye ones.
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