Review: Forgotten Men

Forgotten Men by Bill Thompson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This paranormal novel is absolutely enthralling! THE FORGOTTEN MEN is Book Two in the Bayou Hauntings series, and incorporates history, ghosts, serial killers, horrific prison conditions, the criminally insane, and pirate treasure. In 1820 a trader from New Orleans who has inexplicably gained wealth builds a grand hotel near Bayou Teche, Louisiana, and a small community forms around it, the town of Victory. Later he leaves the area, destination unknown; and the hotel is abandoned for decades, until it becomes the nation's first for-profit institution for incarceration of the criminally insane, who are brutally treated, starved, tortured, and beaten--then buried in an unnamed cemetery out back. Closed in 1907, the building remains occupied--although not by the living. Subject of adolescent dares, it also provides temporary housing for addicts and the homeless. Deputy Sheriff Landry Drake discovers a string of unsolved killings at the site, and determines to discover more, but is fired by the Sheriff. He is actually on the right track, though, as he will soon discover. There is more evil at the former Asylum than he could imagine: some deceased, some alive. THE FORGOTTEN MEN is a terrifying, engrossing, page-turner.

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