Glenn Woods

I read this book some years ago and it still lingers. A ghost story from the ghosts point of view. I loved everything about this book with one exception: the ghost has an annoying habit of asking the reader 'have I scared you?' Either I'm unsettled or I'm not, the cattleprodding was unnecessary. Other than that, this story is more intriguing than scary. A little girl in pre-Civil war time gets shot by a stray bullet in a street shooting. She stumbles into her neighbor's basement and dies. Her body is not discovered. Time moves on and she is trapped in that house as a ghost. Various people move in and move out and she has compelling interactions with the living. All the while, she wants to find her mother. Nicely-detailed, an easy read. I finished the book fairly convinced it was a true story told by a ghost.… (mehr)