A review by paddlefoot55
Not Quite Dead (A Lowcountry Mystery) by Lyla Payne

4.0

Copy received from the author for an honest review.

I am not much of a paranormal/supernatural book kind of reader - ghost stories, yeah whatever lol - but I have loved the other works by Lyla Payne that I have read, so when she approached me to read Not Quite Dead I decided to give it a go.

And I am glad I did.

This is not just a ghost story. There is mystery, suspense, humour, romance.

Heron Creek is a bizarre little town full of bizarre people, and Graciela sure does shake things up a bit when the moves back to care for ailing family!! From the first chapter when we meet her I just knew that I was going to love her.

I was drawn into the ghost story/mystery story and needed to find out what the ghost wanted, why she was hanging around. There was a a bit of the scooby-doos about the story at times with some of the characters, hell I was expecting someone to come and say they "would have got away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids"

I don't mean that in a bad way either, it added an amusing, lighthearted feel to the story.

I thoroughly enjoyed Not Quite Dead, and look forward to reading Not Quite Cold when it is released.