Books like Madeleine's ghost by Robert Girardi
Ned Conti, a young historian in New York, wages a quiet battle against a series of unsettling supernatural events in his apartment as he attempts to research the miraculous past of a Brooklyn nun. His investigations lead him back to a haunting memory of New Orleans, the city that once claimed his heart and that now threatens to consume him.
As the summer heat grows, Ned’s tenuous relationship with the world of the living frays and he is drawn irretrievably into a realm of desire, fate, and spectral whispers that sit on the edges of his consciousness. In the course of his research, he discovers that the ghost haunting his flat is tied to an abandoned love that will test the limits of both time and imagination.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: Suspense/Supernatural Suspense
Authors: Robert Girardi
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