The ghost in you : a Reckless book / by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips ; colors by Jacob Phillips.

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Title:

The ghost in you : a Reckless book / by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips ; colors by Jacob Phillips.

Author:

Brubaker, Ed, author.

Phillips, Sean, illustrator.

Phillips, Jacob (Jacob R.), colorist.

Image Comics, publisher.

ISBN:

9781534322080

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Series:

Reckless ; [4]

Reckless ; 4.

Abstract:

"The fourth book in the best-selling Reckless series is here! Crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, winners of the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Novel, are back with another original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless. Meet Anna Keller: Your trouble is her business... wait, what? Yes, this time it's the winter of 1989 and Ethan is out of town, so Anna is forced to tackle this case on her own. When a movie scream queen asks her to investigate the mysterious happenings at a mansion she's renovating, Anna will stumble into the decades-long mystery of one of Hollywood's most infamous murder houses... a place with many dark secrets, some of which might just kill her." -- From back cover.

Reading Level:

Rated: M / Mature.

Subject Term:

Crime -- California -- Los Angeles -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Women private investigators -- California -- Los Angeles -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Private investigators -- California -- Los Angeles -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Haunted houses -- California -- Los Angeles -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Nineteen eighties -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels -- United States.

Romans graphiques -- États-Unis.

Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle) -- Bandes dessinées.

Femmes détectives -- Californie -- Los Angeles -- Bandes dessinées.

Détectives -- Californie -- Los Angeles -- Bandes dessinées.

Maisons hantées -- Californie -- Los Angeles -- Bandes dessinées.

Geographic Term:

Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Comic books, strips, etc.

California -- Los Angeles

Genre:

Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc.

Detective and mystery stories.

Comics (Graphic works)

Detective and mystery comics

Noir comics

Thriller comics

Graphic novels.

Detective and mystery comics.

Thriller comics.

Noir comics.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Noir fiction.

Mystery and detective fiction -- California -- Los Angeles.

Bandes dessinées policières.

Bandes dessinées à suspense.

Bandes dessinées policières noires.

Bandes dessinées.

Added Author:

Phillips, Sean,

Phillips, Jacob (Jacob R.),

Added Corporate Author:

Image Comics,

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Summary

The fourth book in the best-selling Reckless series is here!

Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips bring us yet another original graphic novel starring troublemaker-for-hire Ethan Reckless.

Except this time it's the winter of 1989 and Ethan is out of town, so Anna must tackle this job on her own. When a movie scream queen asks her to prove the mansion she's renovating isn't haunted, Anna will stumble into the decades-long mystery of one of Hollywood's most-infamous murder houses... a place with many dark secrets, some of which might just kill her.

Another hit from the award-winning creators of RECKLESS, PULP, MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, CRIMINAL, and KILL OR BE KILLED -- and a must-have for all Brubaker and Phillips fans!

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Brubaker and Phillips's Reckless series takes a detour in this spookier and less violent but still exciting L.A. noir. It's 1989, and gloomy gumshoe Ethan is away on a job in San Francisco, having left purple-haired punk assistant Anna running the El Ricardo--part shabby-cool movie house (showing Kurosawa, Lynch, and spaghetti westerns), part headquarters for their off-the-books detective business. Anna takes the job when an aging fatale walks in: Lorna Valentine, once the B-movie scream queen "Evilina," who believes the Hollywood Hills mansion she inherited from a stalker superfan is haunted. Just after Anna starts investigating the dark résumé of this "murder house,"she is knocked off course (just as Ethan typically is), this time by a suspicious cop and her flighty mother, a recovering alcoholic. Following form for the genre (some chapters are named after classic mystery films), the story starts in darkness and danger (Anna stabbed and bleeding out in the mansion) before dredging up dirty secrets that illuminate the city's shabby history. Though this arc doesn't quite evoke the shadow of rugged doom cast in Ethan's stories, Anna's tough but idealistic cynicism brings a sharper energy to this superb series. (Apr.)

Library Journal Review

Anna, assistant to unlicensed P.I. Ethan Reckless, takes center stage in Brubaker and Phillips's latest "Reckless" noir mystery. Anna stays behind when Ethan's latest case calls him out of town. Enter Evilina, a retired B-movie scream queen seeking to learn whether her opulent mansion (recently inherited from an obsessed fan) is haunted. Anna's investigation soon uncovers the tragic death of the silent movie star who built the property and the horrific massacre of the second family to live there. If it's not haunted, how to explain that rancid smell in the basement? Then Anna's distracted by the sudden reappearance of her estranged mother, who wants Anna to come to her wedding to a new-age guru she met in rehab. Anna is immediately suspicious of the guy--is that intuition, or lingering resentment clouding her judgment? VERDICT A cleverly plotted, thoroughly entertaining thriller with a keen focus on characterization and exceptionally realized illustration.