A certain delicacy is needed when you set a murder mystery on a Southern plantation that also does civil war re-enactments. Especially when the murder is linked to civil war history. The first chunk of the book explains how slavery is a non issue' and in fact there is no racism any more (this is confirmed by a black character being totally cool with re-enacting the guy who owned his family & raped his great grand mother). Another character explains that her Slave owning ancestors didn't make Sla...

Gotta love a Civil War re enactment at a Louisiana Plantation. And of course a MURDER

So....That was me during most...of this book, the first 50 pages are completely about a set up for a Civil War reenactment which was my first problem, I am definitely NOT into the Civil War era but trucked through in realizing a lot of this set up would lend itself because this is a mystery murder book after all right? It WILL get better, the first book was decent enough! The book is just sooooo sloooow. I was very very close to DNFing it several times but what was holding me through is that I a...

Compared to book one, I liked the story better in this book, but I liked the characters better in the first one. The characters here came across as rather flat.I also had an issue (one of those must suspend disbelief kinds of things) with the fact that Jake, who previously was pretty much just a musician that also apparently helped to find people (unless I’m mistaken on that aspect), now is a full fledged FBI agent that knows all about protocols, procedure and apparently the knowledge to give a

Oh, Heather Graham...what have they done to you? Did you sit in a meeting, after the success of the first book, in this series, and listen to some asshole in a suit tell you how to make your series more marketable? Did he say, more ghosts--ghosts are in right now? Did he say, more romance--romance is big? Did he say, let's dumb it down a bit--people are stupid? If he did say those things, you seem to have taken them to heart because this book is an insult to the one that preceded it. I gave that...

4 Stars... The second book in the "Krewe Hunters" series focuses on Jake Mallory who, along with his team, is called in to investigate a missing persons case causing him to be reunited with his soulmate, Ashley Donegal... The case quickly turns to a murder investigation, seeped in Civil War history, and ghostly presences begin to entwine themselves within this haunting mystery... Heather Graham provides a strong historical foundation within which she creates a twisting, turning "who done it" cas...

Another great paranormal mystery! Some of the paranormal aspects were a little hokey in this story and Ashley was a little annoying at times but overall I really enjoyed reading this story. I am very excited to continue in this series!!

This book was not as creepy as the first, though it had enough elements that it should have been. Perhaps it was because the heroine was so forgiving of obnoxious and stupid behavior. Or because she was TSTL at times. Or because so many of the suspects were not particularly likeable. Or because we got to see inside the villain's head. And that last is something I'm glad we had even though I normally don't care for it. If there hadn't been a POV from the villain, then the solution wouldn't have w...

To be frank, I felt the ghosts in the story had more of a love connection than Jake and Angela did. Really Angela blows Jake off 5 years ago because she can't deal with what he told her about her dad. Now that she is having some dead people issues, she wants him back in her life. Then once he is there she keeps blowing hot and cold with him. Then after they have been in the muddy Mississippi looking for a weapon and Jake is trying to catch a shower. Then you knock on the door still covered in st...

This review was originally posted on Books of My Heart  3.5 hearts  Read It, Rate It and Record    A short review to update challenges  I was able to get Phantom Evil,  the first book of this Krewe Of Hunters series from the Audible Romance package.  Heart of Evil was available with audio through Kindle Unlimited.  Both are set in New Orleans.   The first set up the world, this special FBI team and had the romance of the team leader, Jackson and Angela.Heart of Evil is full of civil wa...

What attracted me to this second novel in the series are the FBI paranormal team and the Civil War reenactment. The character Ashley Donegal, at first, reminded me of the heroine from horror movies. The heroine who goes running into a no-win situation and the viewer asks, "Why she's doing such a stupid thing?" Luckily, Ashley's characterization improved over the course of the novel. Jake Mallory, an old flame of Ashley's, is a member of the FBI paranormal team. Where he played a secondary charac...

If you like the Civil War, the history of New Orleans, ghosts, and romance, then read Heart of Evil by Heather Graham. I love history! I enjoyed the book because of the history. That is why I gave this book four stars. This is book two of the series. The books in the series do not have to be read in order. My biggest problem with this book is that there are too many characters. I understand that it is about a Civil War reenactment, but it would be better if the characters had names that were not...

I had a hard time with this book, and it really dragged on for me in spots. There was a very slow build-up thing going for most of the book, then it just seemed to rush to the ending! There was barely any romance between Jake and Ashley, and it really didn't feel like the team did much investigating! What saved the book for me was the historical aspect of it, as well as the ghostly interactions. The setting was very rich, and there were times when I actually felt as if I was wandering the planta...

Love this series. The twists and turns keep you guessing.

Ugh. Horrible. Don't even know why I finished it. Probably because I was listening to it while doing fun stuff. Would not recommend. Very boring. I really didn't care what happened half way through the book.

Ok, I have now read two books in this series in hopes that Heather can pull it out of the world of Lost Plots. But, no. Ashley is such a TSTL heroine that I kept kinda wishing the villain would just shoot her. At the beginning of the book she rushes into the old graveyard in her night gown to investigate what she thinks may be some teenage vandals. Yep, that stupid. Then there is Jake whose personality has completely changed since the first book. Now he's in charge? He and Jackson seem to have

Heart of Evil is the second book in the Krewe of Hunters series and it is quite different to the first one. Heart of Evil contains the same characters but this time it focuses on Jake. While, I think that you don’t have to read the first one in order to understand this one I would definitely recommend reading the first book, Phantom Evil before this one; especially if you want to know more about the characters backgrounds and things like that.Heart of Evil is so good. It is a murder mystery, wit...

Heart of Evil is book two in the Krewe of Hunters by Heather Graham. Donegal Plantation has a great history before the Civil War, and Donegal Plantations is now a Bed and Breakfast establishment. Every year, they held a reenactment of the day the Union Soldiers killed the original owner of the plantation during the American Civil War. However, the latest reenactment ended in the death of the person who played Marshall Donegal. Ashley Donegal's grandfather called in a favour from an FBI friend, r...

4 StarsI love this series! This book deals with a plantation in Louisiana and ghosts from the Civil War.

This was definitely an interesting read. It's a cross between paranormal and actual crime scene investigation. It was almost like watching one of those episodes where people truly enter a place and try to use scientific data to interpret whether or not they encountered a presence. Usually in paranormal romances, it's the exact same information that you get in all the others, and right now there is a plethora of them to choose from. Different angles, different ideas, or just a different spin is a...