5 Stars
"Ghosts can't hurt you! All they can do is scare you." Haven't you heard or read that all your life? Well, in the tiny community of Anger, Maine, that maxim is false. There, ghosts can scare you, they can hurt you, they can even kill you, causing excruciating agony in the process. [Maybe the town should be renamed from "Anger" to "Agony."] The good die young, the good die old. The evil die and are brought to the town via whichever artifact to which they are attached, according to the plans of a selfish medium herself controlled by a ghost who in turn is in the clutches of someone even worse.
This series is engrossing to me for the characters--the good guys, such as protagonist Dan, elderly wise woman Mary, Detective Evan Coffin, remaining scion of a founding family--are individuals of integrity, personally flawed, but realistically human. I am also engrossed with the plot's incredibly creative Supernatural elements. Yet I must caution new readers that the violence level is extreme, especially so, I thought, in this novel. People get hurt, and badly. A lot suffer, extremely. There are scenes here which will be especially disturbing to some readers, so exercise caution.
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