Corpse Whisperer

by Chris Redding

How far would you go to escape fate? As far as you would go to stop seeing ghosts? That is what Grace must decide to prevent a murder. The characters must untangle a web of deceit, life changing twists, and personal conflicts before they can solve the mystery. Chris Redding wrote a wonderfully realistic book that twists the real and paranormal so cleverly that no one will question whether her gift is real.

204 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 2007

Reviews

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

Grace Harmony, like her mother before her, has a strange parapsychological talent: the corpses of the murdered can speak to her, and she then can whip back through time either to avert the murder or to solve the crime. It's always worked out well before; in this most recent instance, however, everything is much more complicated, and not just because she falls in love with one of the men involved in the case. Again and again Grace finds herself looping back through time and, as in Ken Grimwood's Replay, finding herself unable to do much about the way she's changing it simply by doing this. It's a great premise, but . . .

Corpse Whisperer bears all the hallmarks of a self-published novel: the basic grammatical errors, the typos, the Thog's Masterclass howlers, the double letter spaces in strange and unexpected places, you name it. A major character is sometimes a cop, sometimes a retired-cop-turned-private-eye. On a couple of occasions we're readied for major plot features that are then dismissed in a few lines, as if the relevant part of the synopsis had been substituted for the heralded several pages of dramatic narrative. That the setup should surely create dozens of time paradoxes is simply ignored. And so on. All in all, there's a feeling of careless haste about the text, as if the author cared more about filling the pages than telling the tale -- a great shame, since the premise offered so much.

[Sharon Benham · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really really enjoyed this book. It was reminiscent of the tv show Tru Calling.

Grace Harmony has the 'gift' of helping the recently murdered. She rewinds in time to stop the event happening.

The event this time has many many problems and she can't understand the things that keep going wrong.

She is likely to lose her ability when she turns 30 in a couple of days time so she really needs to save Delores.

I highly recommend this book.

I look forward to reading more from this author.

[Michelle Baldwin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very different to any thing else I have read,I loved the characters and willed for happy ever after .... I like this author very much and I will be reading more of her books.....