Mac Crichton makes his living cleaning up other people’s ghosts. But now the dead have learned his name.
After years of drowning his gift in whiskey, medium Mac Crichton wants nothing to do with ghosts or the living. Then a murdered woman’s spirit finds him, her memory shattered, desperate to name her killer. Mac knows better than to get involved. He takes the case anyway.
Each clue pulls him deeper into a world where crime and the supernatural collide. As bodies surface and old hauntings stir, Mac discovers something feeding on the dead, and it will kill to keep feeding.
To stop it, he must use the power he’s tried to bury and face the reason he’s been running from ghosts for years.
Fans of The Whisper Man and Joe Hill will love this dark, character-driven thriller where grief, guilt, and the afterlife are never far apart.
Timothy E. Jorgensen writes dark, character-driven thrillers that blur the line between the living and the dead. His debut supernatural novel Threshwalker follows medium Mac Crichton into a world where crime and the afterlife collide, while his earlier work L’dopterra explores humanity’s struggle for survival in a distant, fractured future.
Drawing on a lifelong fascination with grief, belief, and the unseen forces that shape us, Jorgensen’s stories weave elements of thriller, paranormal, and fantasy into grounded, emotionally charged fiction. He lives in Colorado, where he divides his time between writing, technology, and far too much coffee.
Fast-paced chaotic adventure where there are questionable life choices, battles of seeking absolution with threads of magic, loss, undefined reality, and raw human spirit woven through to create a vortex begging to be explored by readers.
That is my pretty, polished (yep...I know it is a run-on sentence...move on) take on the book.
My real and raw take is....
You know when you are reading and you have to look off to the side and then hold the book in front of your face and yell, "Bruhhh, why are you the way you are?!?!" Then look to the side again and "break the fourth wall" as you beckon anyone to feel you as you continue reading the shenanigans occuring in said book...
Well I did that multiple times in the best possible way. It was soooo good. I really wanted to dive into the next one.... if there was a next one.
Bruh Mac and his life choices... The lack of self preservation will absolutely have you breaking the fourth wall on repeat.
This book completely dragged me along in the best way. I kept telling myself “just one more chapter,” because I had to know what happened next.
The mystery was gripping enough that I was fully locked in, trying to solve it right along with the story.
By the end, I was satisfied...but also immediately annoyed that it was over because now I have to move on with my life.
Also I very much need a full, slightly unhinged Adaira-centered story, because clearly there’s more going on there and I’m not okay with not knowing it.
A ghost story and serial killer mystery wrapped into one! Tim creates two vivid worlds with a character (Mac) who has a foot in both. The story kept me engaged and wanting to read more as I needed to know what happened to Mac and the ghosts he can see.