Haunting Megan by Rebecca Reilly
After suffering years of abuse at the hands of her alcoholic mother, Megan wakes to screams, cries of murder, and the room splattered with blood. Sent to the mountains to live with the grandfather who’d once abandoned them, Megan must learn to care for her young sisters and manage Wind Hollow Lodge. Megan tries to ignore the haunting memories of her past as she struggles to live a normal life. But she can’t ignore the ghosts who terrorize her, nor can she calm the fear that her sanity is slipping away. When deputies discover the bodies of men murdered on Wind Hollow land, people start to wonder just how crazy Megan Wilson really is.
The investigation at Wind Hollow Lodge is just another case to Deputy Jason Belt—until he sees Megan. Drawn to her beauty and her wounded spirit, his oath to protect and serve takes on new meaning. But why did she lie to him? What does she have to hide?
About the Author
Rebecca Reilly is a pastor and has been working in ministry for over thirty years. A wife and mother of two and grandmother of one, Rebecca enjoys hiking, jogging, and taking cruises. When she’s in her Northern California home, she works as a pastor of student ministries, a massage therapist, a health coach, and a writer. Rebecca enjoys writing mysteries (Into Dark Waters and Haunting Megan), but has also written humor (Diary of a Christian Woman: How I Used 50 Shades of Grey to Spice Up My Marriage), a children’s chapter book (The Geek Club), and two picture books (Heart of a Kitty and Jammers and His Flying Bed Adventure). Right now, Rebecca is working on follow-up novels in all four genres. You can follow Rebecca on Facebook (facebook.com/RebeccaLynnReilly), Twitter (twitter.com/RebeccaReillyL), Goodreads, and at http://www.rebeccareilly.net.
This is my first review for the #RaveReviewsBookClub. Still feeling my way around, so if there are any omissions or errors, please bear with me.
Review of Haunting Megan by Rebecca Reilly
I thought it a fascinating idea to have a ghost in a murder mystery story, but it worked very well. The author includes so much in her writing, and the pace is just fast enough to suspend all doubts. I have not read a book before where time seems to pass so quickly, and I am sure this helped to build the tension.
You are along for the ride of your life, with no time to question or ponder any of the details. Just one thing I spotted in chapter six. Three twin beds were mentioned to accommodate the new arrivals at their grandfather’s Lodge, but surely, this is six beds?
The plot was complicated and full on but worked brilliantly, no holes or misdirection that I could see, and the characters were very real, no cardboard people in this book! I loved the way Clint, the grumpy grandfather gradually softens towards the younger girls, giving them the chance for a better life.
Wind Hollow Lodge, situated in a small mountain town was described brilliantly. I walked among the trees in the snow and heard the crunch under my feet, the cold seeping through my clothes. The author must know the area very well to have captured so much detail.
I usually don’t like to discuss the details of the plot when I review, as I think too much information can be off putting, but the subject matter, at times brutal, includes so much more than basic horror, there is the supernatural, romance, murder and mystery all combining to make one hell of a story.
At the end, finding out who the killer was, came as a complete surprise, as I would not have suspected them at all.
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