Ava Collette is an author, suffering from
guilt for a drunk New Year’s Eve transgression which she is self-medicating
with copious amounts of alcohol. She has retreated to an old, possibly haunted,
house on the coast of Maine, Brodie’s Watch. How haunted? She had BDSM sex
encounters with the ghost, Captain Jeremiah Brodie who died 150 years ago. All
this might have been fine until the body of a young woman washes up in the
harbor.
The sex is pretty explicit with references to
breasts, nipples, ripped dresses, and leather cuffs. “Say it.” He leans
closer. “Say you will submit.” My voice is barely audible. “I will submit.”
Her reaction to this treatment is, “Captain Brodie has ruined me for the
touch of a real man.” I would have preferred a stronger female protagonist-certainly
no Rizzoli or Isles here.
Ava, when she wasn’t entranced by the ghost,
investigated the 150-year history of women dying at Brodie’s watch up to the
most recent murder evidenced by the body washed up in the harbor. Aside from
the ghost, there were almost no suspects until the reveal. I found the reveal a
bit incomplete and disappointing.
A supernatural, horror, romance thriller from Tess
Gerritsen, the author of Rizzoli and Isles.
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