Dead to the Max
J.B. SkullyErotica
Available from Liquid Silver Books
June 2003
| Two Years ago Max Starr saw her husband, Cameron, killed during a robbery.
Max is alone in the world except for Cameron's ghost. She dropped all
ties and friends upon his death and the last thing she wants to be is
psychic. When Max wakes up from a very real dream, only to have Cameron tell
her it was a vision of a murder, she is not happy. Now she is not only
married to a ghost and she is psychic, but some lady named Wendy Gregory
decides to possess her until she can find out who killed her. Max is
reluctant but ultimately Wendy forces her to figure everything out. She is
either psychic or insane. She hopes she is just insane.
The easy part, for Max, is getting to know everyone involved, the hard part is dealing with Wendy's emotions and feeling towards these people. There is a plethora of suspects; Wendy's domineering husband Hal, her sadistic father, her lover, her lover's estranged wife or even her boss! Cameron does not help her very much either by encouraging her attraction to the Detective in charge of Wendy's murder, which makes Max even more confused, because Wendy wants to reunite with her lover, Nicholas Drake. She knows so much about Wendy, her life and her death, that she scares the murderer into action. Dead to the Max is funny and sad all at once. Max has some real issues not only with being psychic, but also with her past. Cameron is worried about her inability to grow past her childhood and become a stable adult living, rather than just existing. He wants the best that life can give Max even if it means letting her love someone else. I would not call this a very romantic book, it is a true murder mystery; it keeps you guessing until the very end. This should be a very interesting series.
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Reviewer: Sara Sawyer |
