The Barnes & Noble ReviewBestselling author Heather Graham weaves danger, dreams, and ghosts into an unusually gripping romantic thriller set in a historic house in Lower Manhattan. Archeologist Leslie MacIntyre returns to Hastings House, the same site where a mysterious explosion killed her fiance, Matt Connolly, one year ago. Leslie, too, was almost killed; but as she recovered, she discovered a new and puzzling gift -- the ability to commune with ghosts. As Leslie resumes her life again, she begins work on a newly discovered pauper's burial ground beneath the house. But putting aside the past is far from easy. Matt's ghost greets her, communicating that they should work together to find his murderer; he also pays her some exciting nocturnal visits or are they dreams? Then Leslie meets his first cousin, Joe, a private investigator, for whom she feels some stirring of attraction. Their search for a missing social worker who had helped prostitutes leads to a string of unsolved murders and puts them all in grave danger. Graham outdoes herself here: The Dead Room works well as a mystery and a ghost story, and she caps it all off with an exciting and unexpected ending. Ginger Curwen