The Haunted One

The Haunted One. Jay Bennet. New York: Franklin Watts, 1987. 175 pages

Paul Barret gets a job as life guard. He meets Jody, they become friends. One day Paul goes to her hotel and they agree to meet later, but she never shows up, but there is a letter saying that she went to the city for ballet lessons. At summers end Paul was smoking weed and he thought he could see Jody in the water, but he wasn’t sure because of the drugs effect. Then he heard her call his name. He started swimming toward her and brought her back to shore. She was dead. Paul’s boss told him she started swimming from another beach to surprise him. When he gets home his mother said Jody called. Paul goes to the mall with his friend ,Joan, and he sees Jody sitting at a table. At home Paul tells Joan about the summer. Paul goes to the beach and his boss sits next to him and says he talked to Joan about how upset he is. Carson says he is to harsh on him for what he did,

and he made a report and sent it to Jody’s twin sister. Paul didn’t know he had a sister. Then Paul left. Paul waits for Jody’s sister at the beach. She gets there and says that Jody told her all about Paul, and that she started to like him. She takes a gun from her purse and says she’s going to kill him. Paul throws the gun into the water. After that she leaves. This book is for people who like mysteries and scary things. I didn’t like the story until the end when I found out about the sister because it was boring until then. 7 Rate

Reviewed by Andrea S.