Rebecca Patrick-Howard

When Matt’s parents purchase a dilapidated cottage on the remote Irish island of Inis Dubh he finds himself roped into going there and overseeing the renovations. His best friend and the love of his life, Taryn joins him and soon they discover that this island is full of ghosts and secrets. The cottage seems to be a key place in the haunting and Matt and Taryn believe this is all connected to a missing woman from a number of years ago. Then a second young woman disappears and they find themselves hunting not only ghosts but a serial killer as well. Without knowing who the killer is, the reader soon leans that he has his eye on Taryn.

Matt’s Haunting by Rebecca Patrick-Howard is a spooky haunted house story with a paranormal mystery attached and I was intrigued from the start. Unfortunately the author spends far too much time sorting through Matt’s and Taryn’s relationship which caused the book to be overlong and took away from the more interesting aspect of the book, the haunting and the killings.

Matt’s Haunting needed both a better editor and proof-reader. The story needed come cutting and shaping and the many spelling mistakes and wrong words needed correcting. I liked the parts of the book that dealt with the ghosts but overall I think this is a book that I should have set aside.… (mere)