Heather Graham moves from Savannah to Pennsylvania in her latest series within the Krewe of Hunters series. Several characters from The Summoning return in The Seekers, one of the creepier books in this series.

A young actor, Carl Brentwood, recently bought the Miller Inn and Tavern, located between Harrisburg and Philadelphia. Because the tavern has a story behind it, and a reputation for being haunted, he invites the crew of a popular web show about haunted locations, the Truth Seekers, to check it out before he renovates it. Keri Wolf, an author who researches and writes about historical true crimes is also invited. While the crew is still setting up cameras, Keri and one of the women from the web crew discover a body on a makeshift altar in the basement. It’s the body of a missing FBI special agent.

The Krewe of Hunters is a special unit of the FBI that deals with crimes and the paranormal. Many of the agents see or talk with ghosts. Dallas Wicker is charged with working with a new recruit, Joe Dunhill. Because Carl dealt with Dallas and Joe in a previous case in Savannah, he asks for their help. Joe hasn’t yet gone through the FBI academy, but he serves as a special consultant. And, he immediately knows Keri Wolf is lying when she says she didn’t see a ghost in the basement.

Graham’s Krewe of Hunters books always combine historical elements with the paranormal. In this case, she deals with witches and fear, possible cults that have existed in the area for years, a tavern owner who killed people in his basement, the lynching of a possible killer, and the fear that others might be emulating the tavern owner, as part of a cult today. The suspicion and stories of the area, and killings that may have been going on for years, makes The Seekers creepier than other books in the series. The paranormal elements of the stories are seldom the eerie factor in these books. Usually, it is the evil in people that adds the element of fear.

The Seekers jumps right into the murders with the discovery of that first body. But, Keri’s research adds to the horror as the stories accumulate about murder from the past, and the people who were involved. It only gets worse in modern times. The Seekers is not for the squeamish, but it’s one more example of Heather Graham’s ability to tell a terrific story.

Heather Graham’s website is www.TheOriginalHeatherGraham.com

The Seekers by Heather Graham. MIRA, 2019. 297p.

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