Description from Amazon:
It started as a
fake suicide. It ended in a very real murder.
Sean would do anything
for his crush Kayla, even help the girl stage her own death. But after her
near-sighted plan takes a dark turn and her corpse washes up on the beach,
those little lies he told to the police don’t seem so little anymore.
When he becomes the
prime suspect, his only hope to avoid prison may be to follow in Kayla’s doomed
footsteps by faking his own death. With the manhunt on his heels, he must put
his trust in a dangerous couple with a devious idea for his second chance at
life. Will Sean escape to freedom or will he unwittingly step into the noose of
his own tangled plan?
Keep the Ghost is the first book in a series of edgy
mystery thrillers. If you like fast-paced suspense, heart-stopping plot twists,
and deadly double-crosses, then you’ll love Scott Kelly’s nail-biting tale.
Well, this was an odd
one. It sounded very different and I figured it would be quite a change. I’m
not sure how I feel about it, though.
The idea behind faking
your death (pseudocide) is to not be bound by your name. To not be defined by
the name given to you and to free yourself from your ghost. But with Sean on
the run and being helped by some very shady characters, he needs to get a new
identity. And surely then he is bound by this new identity? You couldn’t keep
changing it all the time, after all. It does go deeper than this because obviously,
to have the funds to do this, you’d need some sort of scam behind the scenes,
and that is exactly what is happening, as Sean soon discovers.
The writing definitely
made you want to read more to find out what happens. There are a couple of
cringy bits, and bits that seemed off, but when actual murder takes place to hide
a name, it wasn’t justified. And then… the story doesn’t finish. With loads of
space left in the book, it just ends and ends without either a satisfying
conclusion or a decent lead in to the next book. Unfortunately, this series is
not for me.
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