I was sucked in by The Dresden Files reference by some authors' blurb. Dammit. Ellie Jordan is similar to Harry Dresden in the fact that she doesn't sleep much and she investigates paranormal activity. That's it. She doesn't have any magic and is nowhere nearly as cool or funny. She isn't bad, though. Oh, she does have a cat. Jordan has a complex past, which drove her into this line of work - Ghost Trapper. In this first installment, Jordan is training a partner (Stacey) and begrudgingly adds a psychic to the team's current assignment. They happen to reside in Savannah, Georgia - a real-life tourist destination for ghost hunters. As stories go, this one is pretty fun. It is a bit slow out of the gate, but the action leading up to the climax and its conclusion should keep you reading past your bedtime. Overall I enjoyed it and would be tempted to read book two to see how the characters develop.
This is the first of a 9 book series. 3.5 of 5 Stars
From the Publisher:
Ellie Jordan’s job is to catch and remove unwanted ghosts. Part detective, part paranormal exterminator, Ellie operates out of Savannah, Georgia, the most haunted city in the United States. When a family contacts her to deal with a disturbing presence in the old mansion they’ve recently purchased, Ellie first believes it to be a typical, by-the-book specter, a residual haunting by a restless spirit. Instead, she finds herself confronting an evil older and more powerful than she’d ever expected, rooted in the house’s long and sordid history of luxury, sin, and murder. The dangerous entity seems particularly interested in her clients’ ten-year-old daughter. Soon her own life is in danger, and Ellie must find a way to exorcise the darkness of the house before it can kill her, her clients, or their frightened young child.
