Book Review and Tour: Lingering Spirit by Marilyn Meredith

Title: Lingering Spirit
Author: Marilyn Meredith
Publisher: Timeless Love
Publication Date: May 17, 2010
Paperback: 192 pages
ISBN: 978-1892343697
Genre: Fiction, Romance

About the Book:

Nicole Ainsworth’s husband, Steve, has a premonition of his death and moves his family to a mountain community where he serves as a deputy sheriff. He is killed in the line of duty and his wife, Nicole, is left behind to struggle with the changes forced upon her life. While trying to cope with her grief, raise her two little girls, her husband’s spirit visits her on numerous occasions. She soon learns that someone else is watching over her too.

My Review:

Lingering Spirit by Marilyn Meredith is a deeply touching, moving, and endearing novel of love, loss and the process of learning to move on with life. Steve and Nicole Ainsworth relocate from southern California to Quail Meadow, a small town in Northern California, when Steve is hired on as a deputy for the Goldfield County Police Department. After four months, Steve is killed in the line of duty leaving behind his wife Nicole and their two young daughters, Sarah and Kimberley. Meredith writes a deeply moving story of love, loss and learning to let go in order to move forward. Lingering Spirit will quickly draw the reader into Nicole’s life, as Meredith is quite adept at capturing the essence of characters and making them well developed, and quite easy to identify with.   Meredith has shown through her mystery series an amazing aptitude towards detail and she brings that same attention to Lingering Spirit, her first romance novel. This attention to detail makes it easy for the reader to be a part of this heart-breaking and rewarding narrative. Lingering Spirit moves at a quick pace, emotional, and very engaging. I would not hesitate to recommend Lingering Spirit to anyone looking for a quick, yet meaningful, read for the summer.

About the Author:

Marilyn Meredith is the author of nearly thirty published novels, including the award winning Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series, the latest Dispel the Mist from Mundania Press. Under the name of F. M. Meredith she writes the Rocky Bluff P.D. crime series, An Axe to Grind is the latest from Oak Tree Press.

She is a member of EPIC, Four chapters of Sisters in Crime, including the Internet chapter, Mystery Writers of America, and on the board of the Public Safety Writers of America. Visit her website and her blog.

Contest: Have you ever dreamed of being immortalized in print? Well, here’s your chance! Award-winning author Marilyn Meredith is running a contest during her Lingering Spirit Virtual Book Tour, which runs from July 6th through July 30th. Marilyn will name a character in her next Rocky Bluff P.D. book after readers who comment at any of her blog stops during her virtual book tour. This book is currently scheduled to be released in 2012. Leave a comment and get your name in Marilyn’s next Rocky Bluff P.D. book!


Marilyn Meredith’s LINGERING SPIRIT VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR ’10 officially began on July 6th and end on July 30th. You can visit Marilyn’s blog stops at www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com during the month of July to find out more about this great book and talented author!

I received a complimentary copy of Lingering Spirit by Marilyn Meredith from Pump Up Your Book Promotion as part of the tour. Receiving a copy in no way reflected my review of aforementioned novel.