While traveling to begin her new life at the F.B.I. Academy
Vickie Preston and her fiancé Special Agent and Krewe member
Griffin Pryce stop for a romantic weekend in Baltimore. The
first night Vickie has a dream about Edgar Allan Poe, where
she is actually Poe himself. Next morning Griff gets a call
from his boss stating that there has been a murder of a
well-known author in the basement of a Poe themed
restaurant. Thus ends the romantic weekend planned as they
investigate the WICKED DEEDS. Before all is said and done
they find another disturbing death and mysterious activities
that follow along with the lines of works by Poe. Someone is
using these macabre works to kill. Can they stop the killer
before anyone else dies?
WICKED DEEDS is the final of the Preston-Pryce trilogy that
is part of author Heather Graham's Krewe of
Hunters series. I enjoy the mystery and history of the
Krewe series that this author always supplies. To be honest
Poe was not one of my favorite must reads in high school
English class but, I found myself actually looking him up
after reading this book. It was intriguing how Ms. Graham
used the mystery of his death and the name "Reynolds" that
he called for in his delirium (per his biography) to give an
interesting twist to what might have happened to him those
last days of his life.
In this offering, we got to see Vickie more into the agent
mode that she plans for her life with Griff. We also got to
meet up with Jackson Crowe, his wife Angela and their big
boss Adam Harrison, who seemed very pleased with the soon to
be a member of the Krewe. There are many interesting
characters, a wannabe medium; slightly spoiled rich girl;
bookstore owner; Poe enthusiasts, cops and F.B.I and as this
is a Krewe book -- ghosts. I admit that with this one the
"bad guy" came as a surprise, didn't see that twist coming
at all.
If you want a mystery, history, a team of people who work
together, back each other and a couple who find they can
face anything the future offers then WICKED DEEDS is the
book you want.
Eager to start their life together, historian Vickie Preston
and Special Agent Griffin Pryce take a detour en route to
their new home in Virginia and stop for a visit in
Baltimore. But their romantic weekend is interrupted when a
popular author is found dead in the basement of an Edgar
Allan Poe–themed restaurant. Because of the mysterious
circumstances surrounding the corpse, the FBI's Krewe of
Hunters paranormal team is invited to investigate. As more
bizarre deaths occur, Vickie and Griffin are drawn into a
case that has disturbing echoes of Poe's great works,
bringing the horrors of his fiction to life.
The restaurant is headquarters to scholars and fans, and any
of them could be a merciless killer. Except there's also
something reaching out from beyond the grave. The late,
great Edgar Allan Poe himself is appearing to Vickie in
dreams and visions with cryptic information about the
murders. Unless they can uncover whose twisted mind is
orchestrating the dramatic re-creations, Vickie and
Griffin's future as a couple might never begin…
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