AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: Shutter By Ramona Emerson

REVIEW: 

I really loved the unique way this book was broken down. Each chapter begins with a description of a camera. The story line weaves back and forth between now and when Rita was a child. 

Rita has always been able to see and talk to ghosts but it was always discouraged. If a ghost was powerful enough you wouldn't be able to break free and they could wind up killing you. That was never an issue until Rita is called to the horrific crime scene of a woman who either jumped or was pushed from an overpass. Her body was then run over multiple times by cars, dismembering it and scattering the remains. The ghost of this woman is now haunting Rita to find who killed her. 

This is an action packed book that has a good creep factor to it. There is quite a bit of native lore in it, and a grandmothers wish that her granddaughter find life outside the reservation and prosper. 

I am excited to read the sequel Exposed which was released October 2024. If you are a fan of photography, interested in Native American culture and have a thing for ghost stores this one is right up your alley.

 

Publication Date: August 2, 2022 Format: Audio Genre:  Indigenous Voices/ghost mystery Narrator: Charlie Flyte

Publisher: Recorded Books  Length:  8 Hours 53 minutes Buy: Kindle | Audio

SYNOPSIS:

 

Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. 

As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won’t let her sleep and who sabotage her personal life. Her taboo and psychologically harrowing ability was what drove her away from the Navajo reservation, where she was raised by her grandmother. It has isolated her from friends and gotten her in trouble with the law.

And now it might be what gets her killed.

When Rita is sent to photograph the scene of a supposed suicide on a highway overpass, the furious, discombobulated ghost of the victim—who insists she was murdered—latches onto Rita, forcing her on a quest for revenge against her killers, and Rita finds herself in the crosshairs of one of Albuquerque’s most dangerous cartels.