Fever Dreams

by Campbell Jones

Elliot Bledsoe has a university teaching career, a new screenwriting book, and a gorgeous fiance, Rita. He's also a cynic with phobias about everything from Rita's cat Garbanzo to drowning, but he's learned to live with that.

Enter Katie Bracken, a paranormal investigator from New York who's convinced that Elliot holds the secret to her latest case, the twenty-year-old disappearance in the Louisiana swamps of a kidnapped girl that the local officials never solved. Now the little girl seems to be haunting not only her mother and the local voodoo queen but Elliot as well! And to make matters worse, he is stuck with Garbanzo, his mortal enemy, when Rita decides to visit her parents and Katie harasses him into accompanying her to New Orleans and helping her investigate the case.

Is this the start of a beautiful romance or a horrible nightmare? Humorous, terrifying, realistic and filled with colorful characters, FEVER DREAMS is the first in the Bracken and Bledsoe Paranormal Mystery series and will make a believer out of you!

Genres: Mystery

743 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 27, 2012

About the author

April Campbell Jones has been a singer, a model, an actress, a photographer, an editor, a comic book model and writer (posing for the character of Somerset Holmes in the graphic novel of the same name), as well as making a living as a screenwriter for most of her adult life. She has also written comic books and graphic novels under the name April Campbell. She is partners with writer/artist Bruce Jones and together they have turned out scores of comic books, screenplays and novels. They also collaborated on three brilliant, talented children. The Joneses spend their time divided between the Midwest and Los Angeles, California.

Reviews

[Deborah Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good story, interesting plot line. The description of a small, bayou town in Louisiana was enough to make me NOT want to visit! I would have given it another star but the lack of proofreading irritated me.

[Icy_Space_Cobwebs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review: FEVER DREAMS by Campbell Jones
(BRACKEN AND BLEDSOE PARANORMAL MYSTERY #1)

FEVER DREAMS is the first entry in the paranormal series featuring Katie Bracken and Elliot Bledsoe, paranormal investigators. I read this after reading NIGHT CHILLS, and while the hauntings in NIGHT CHILLS were frightening and nearly implacable, I found FEVER DREAMS much more disturbing. The setting to my mind is oppressive and there were a couple events in the swamp that were significantly frightening, to the point of wondering if the protagonists would survive, let alone succeed. Additionally there is one plot thread which really perturbed me as it unfolded in the denouement. I guessed at some of the past events, but the eventual final denouement really surprised me.

[Marti · Rating 3 out of 5]

nothing special