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A young mother is being framed for a crime she didn’t commit. And only I can free her.
I’m Rylan Flynn. I hunt for ghosts and restless spirits, and solve the mysteries that make them haunt the living.
The police found Andrea Evans with a bloody knife in her hands and her boyfriend dead at her feet. But she swears she’s innocent. And I can tell from the desperation in her eyes that she’s telling the truth.
I first met Andrea at Camp Lakewood when we were just kids. That summer was meant to be one to remember, with hikes in the forest and canoeing on the lake. Instead, it’s one I try to forget.
Because Camp Lakewood is the place I saw a ghost for the very first time—the ghost of a murdered girl.
My long-time crush Ford Pierce was also at camp that year. Today, he is the detective who arrested Andrea. Ford is certain she’s guilty and he warns me off. But if he’s wrong the real killer is still walking free.
As I begin to investigate, everything seems to lead me back to camp. How is Andrea’s case linked to the summer we shared, and to that other killing decades ago?
To free Andrea and reunite her with her child, I must return to Camp Lakewood. Even if that means coming face to face with the darkest and deadliest secrets of my past…
With jaw-dropping twists, mesmerizing suspense, and a touch of romance, the Rylan Flynn series is your new paranormal mystery obsession. Fans of Noelle W. Ihli, Heather Graham and Wendy Wang will be hooked from start to finish.
The fourth book in the Rylan Flynn Mystery series. The Haunted Child is an excellent addition to the series. I do have a fascination with the supernatural/paranormal, and this series just feeds it every time a book is released.
The story is told in the present and past. This gives the reader a fuller knowledge of characters and events. I always love a book when it’s a dual timeline. Especially when those timelines are filled with ghosts and Rylan trying to solve mysteries past and present!
It is a fast-paced read that had me glued to the Kindle. I just couldn’t put the book down. It is definitely a “just a one more chapter” book. Although I have to say the other books were exactly the same from this series. I even knew it would be this way from the minute I started reading.
I love how it can be read as a standalone due to the way Dawn Merriman has cleverly woven the plot.. I feel like I know Rylan Flynn and was pleased to be returning to catch up with her life and the cases she investigates.
Another chilling, atmospheric, and gripping read with twists that create so much suspense, too. I’m now sad I have to wait for the next book, but that’s life.
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Author Bio
Dawn Merriman writes creepy small town murder mysteries from her small farm in northeast Indiana where she lives with her husband and teenage children. You can often find her with muck boots on her feet and a story in her head. She enjoys animals, auctions, snorkeling and archaeology.
Dawn Merriman grew up a small town farm girl, on a small time pig farm in Indiana. She spent her young adulthood sitting on her bedroom floor scribbling stories in notebooks. She won the “Northeast Indiana Young Writers” award as a sophomore in high school.
After battling severe depression, she wrote her debut novel “How Murder Saved My Life” as therapy, mixing her love of murder mysteries and farming with climbing out of the darkness of illness.
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