If Michael Chrichton and Stephen King were to have a baby and were the baby to grow up to be a fiction writer, this is the kind of stotry the writer could have imagined. There are dinosaurs here, there are ghosts here, there is a mystery of long disappeared 6-year old girl in the museum. The twist here is that the ghosts are lingering souls of dinos that have suffered during the great extinction. Somehow the disappearance of the girl is related to the dinosaurs. But, there is no ghost of the girl.
Dr. Simon Nealy is a paleontologist who takes up a job at the Hawthorne museum where his young sister had disappeared twenty years ago when he was supposed to be looking after her while his drug-addled mother couldn't be bothered to to it. The disappearance of his sister, Morgan, was never solved, nor were remains ever found. Simon is guilt-ridden since Morgan disappeared under his watch and hopes to get some closure by being back at the museum, possibly looking into her disappearance circumstances and possibly uncovering the guilty abductor. There are a number of insteresting characters and the story is very engaging and well-written.
By all means, read it.
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