Scarlett Dean Reviews

Added April 1, 2004

Unfinished Business

Author: Scarlett Dean
Publisher: Amber Quill Press
Available At: www.amberquill.com
Publishing Date: Available Now
Genre: Horror
Format: Trade Paperback and Ebook download in PDF/HTML/LIT
Price: $13.50 paperback, $6.00 ebook
ISBN: 1-59279-930-2 paperback, 1-59279-108-5
Author Email/Website: www.scarlettdean.com
Reviewer: Karrie Cameron

Haunted houses, haunted furniture, ghosts, healers, witches and time travelling are all things that Doug Patterson finds himself learning more about than he would like to. First, he learns from an old woman (when she decides to sell her antique furniture to him to re-sell in his antique furniture store) that houses are not haunted, but the furniture in them are. He can't help but think she is a little strange, until he discovers something very unusual about the furniture she sold to him.

He decides he is going to help the spirits of haunted furniture with their Unfinished Business and he starts a new career. Most of the people he helps are just curious about his line of work, however, there is one girl who needs his help more than anyone, especially when she finds her life is in danger after strange things are happening in her home.

Doug runs into some people that his father knew before he died and they tell him stories of a side of him Doug never knew and his mother never told him. He also finds out his mother as a slight secret of her own to tell and it just may cost her Doug's life as well as her own.

Wow! Unfinished Business has everything a horror reader could want. Although not nightmare causing, Scarlett Dean certainly covers a wide area of topics from ghosts to "magical" healers, to witches to time travelling. It seems as though there are two stories written into one here, but in the end, you realize that Ms. Dean is just cleverly leading you into the end plot which will leave you on the edge of your seat till the very last word.

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