When Kayla Dunn, photographer for the Dulany Paranormal Team, discovers a murdered girl in Carroll Creek, no one believes there is any connection between the victim and the Team’s challenging assignment from the Frederick County Landmarks Foundation. As paranormal activities continue to increase in Frederick’s heritage homes and buildings it becomes apparent that the spirits have a message which arrives in the form of a trompe l’oeil, a three dimensional painting meaning ‘to deceive the eye’. Nick Nucci, the detective assigned to the murder case begins to work with the Team after Kayla’s photos reveal a live person lurking among the shadows belonging to the spirits. He is able to uncover a web of transgressions that point to secret business dealings reflecting misdeeds of long past. Because of Frederick, Maryland’s mixed history of slavery and abolition and its strategic location during the Civil War, many residents fought and perished, carrying both guilt and passion into the afterlife. Now spirits of the past have returned to haunt the present, revealing a shocking secret worth killing for – and to summon a reckoning in Frederick.
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Kirkus Review for Dead Reckoning in Frederick
A paranormal team’s investigation into spirits in Maryland exposes nefarious deeds that come with a human threat in this suspense novel . . . Taut, riveting story in which apparitions and corporeal baddies remain comparably terrifying.
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