Kat Richardson is our guest blogger during the week of April 21st. If you have any questions for Kat Richardson, add a comment to any of her posts. Here is some brief information about Poltergeist:

Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died-for two minutes. Now she's a Greywalker-walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "strange" cases.

In the days leading up to Halloween, Harper's been hired by a university research group that is attempting to create an artificial poltergeist. The head researcher suspects someone is faking the phenomena, but Harper's investigation reveals something else entirely-they've succeeded.

And when one of the group's members is killed in a brutal and inexplicable fashion, Harper must determine whether the killer is the ghost itself, or someone all too human.

About Kat Richardson

Kat Richardson lives on a sailboat in Seattle with her husband and two ferrets. She rides a motorcycle, shoots target pistol, and does not own a TV.

Poltergeist
Kat Richardson - Author
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Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 352 pages | ISBN 9780451461506 | 07 Aug 2007 | Roc

 

 

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