Invisible Shield

Lindsey Frost finds a body in her bathtub and is shocked to see it is hers. She watches her partner Gerard Alvarez and the crime team working the scene, she is surprised and appalled to learn that her death has been staged as a suicide. She is now determined to solve her own murder. Now in the paranormal world, she needs to learn to navigate her way around. As she meets others on the other side she soon learns that evil lurks on both sides. She has a supernatural stalker after her, but she finds friends also who help her. Now, she’s helping Katie, her younger sister who is also in the police force to find out just who murdered her and who is still out to take away everybody that Lindsey loves. Alvarez proves to be a help and a hindrance to the investigation and Katie feels unusually drawn to the hardened detective. Can Katie and Lindsey find out who the malevolent forces are in the spirit world and in the human world? Can they also put away their sibling rivalry and become a team?

When this reviewer first started reading this book, she thought it would be a normal, run-of-the-mill mystery. But when she read this sentence- ‘It looked like my sister had been right about the paranormal world.’- she was hooked. This story is cleverly written in different viewpoints. Sometimes we are in the head of Lindsey and learning with her how to move in the spiritual world. Sometimes in the head of Katie, with her frustrations about the case and her wonder at the growing attraction she is having toward Alvarez, and sometimes in the head of the villains, who are really villainous. Ms. Dean led her readers into a wonderful world of the paranormal. This reviewer found the story thrilling and was hard pressed to have to put it down due to real life. Ms. Dean writes interesting, complex characters that leap from the pages and have the reader rooting and tooting. The plot is thrilling and chilling with red herrings, surprises and lots of neat things about the spirit world and what could happen when one finds them self on the other side. A great read!

April 2007