Matt Cahill once died and came back with the ability to see evil, which he disposes of with his grandfather's axe; naturally this makes one tend to be a drifter, and Cahill wanders into the path of a serial killer in The Dead Woman, another entry in the Dead Man ebook series.
This television-sized premise has carried through a growing number of slender volumes, and this is the first one that struck me as rather flat. Although sparked by Cahill meeting a small-town woman with the same powers (though used with more mysterious motives), overall the storyline went pretty much where the reader thinks. The others I have read in the series have been livened with tongue somewhat in cheek, which might have helped the proceedings here.
But The Dead Woman is a decent horror read as part of what is becoming an interesting series. I consumed it quickly during a snowbound holiday.
This television-sized premise has carried through a growing number of slender volumes, and this is the first one that struck me as rather flat. Although sparked by Cahill meeting a small-town woman with the same powers (though used with more mysterious motives), overall the storyline went pretty much where the reader thinks. The others I have read in the series have been livened with tongue somewhat in cheek, which might have helped the proceedings here.
But The Dead Woman is a decent horror read as part of what is becoming an interesting series. I consumed it quickly during a snowbound holiday.
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