A Specter of Justice

A good choice for anyone who enjoys small-town mysteries and ghost stories." -BooklistWhen private detective Sam Blackman agrees to help his partner and lover, Nakayla Robertson, conduct a fundraiser for orphaned twin boys, he does so to ease his con... Read more

A good choice for anyone who enjoys small-town mysteries and ghost stories." -Booklist
When private detective Sam Blackman agrees to help his partner and lover, Nakayla Robertson, conduct a fundraiser for orphaned twin boys, he does so to ease his conscience. The boys'' parents were killed in a courtroom shootout where Sam was the key witness against the twins'' father.
The charity event, a nighttime ghost tour of the legendary haunted sites ofAsheville, North Carolina, seems harmless enough. Sam only has to tell the story of a grief-stricken woman who hanged herself from an old, arched stone bridge. "Helen, come forth!" he cries. Sam and his tour-goers expect the actress playing Helen''s ghost to walk toward them from the bridge''s dark recesses. Instead, her body tumbles from overhead and dangles at the end of a noose. Someone has reenacted the legend with deadly authenticity.
When a second murder mimics another old ghosttale, the police fear a macabre serial killer is on the prowl. But the case isn''t Sam''s to solve. Then, a tidal wave of evidence begins to point to one man-Sam''s friend, defense attorney Hewitt Donaldson. Sam and Nakayla, firmly believing in Donaldson''s innocence, must not only prove it, but halt a murderer seemingly bent on retribution. Does the killer''s motivation rise from the present, or is Team Donaldson dealing with some specter from the past?
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