09-11-09 Readings

09/11/09
Poltergeist (Kat Richardson)
Read quite a bit. Harper examines the room and, along with Quinton, her technologically adept, if somewhat mysterious, friend investigate how Tuckman was able to produce the poltergeist phenomena. Quite a few nifty technical details here. Quinton’s actually a nifty character, who is sort of a renegade electrical engineer who can MacGyver various bits of technology together on very basic principles (he rigged up Harper’s security system in the first book to page her whenever someone enters her office). Unfortunately she finds that she can’t view the Grey, the Twilight-like ghost realm, from inside the control booth for the room, so her ability to perceive what’s going on out there is limited.

Harper finally gets to view a session...and shit goes crazy as the table dances around the room, chases the participants, and at one point spins on one leg so fast it draws up smoke from the floor. One of the normal participants in the sessions, Mark, didn’t attend, so Harper goes to check him out, but finds the police at his apartment. Apparently Mark got tossed into a wall and crushed to death. Suspicious much?

While looking into that, Harper is contacted by her vampire friend, Cameron, who wants her to go to the morgue for him and check on a body he killed...and make sure it didn’t come back from the dead. Turns out the old man had a heart attack while Cameron was...doing something nonspecific. Well, it does turn out that he’s just dead, so all’s well there.