The Seeker: A Mystery at Walden Pond

R. B. Chesterton

Mar 2014 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

Researching Thoreau’s life, a grad student finds danger, dark secrets, and something haunting Walden Pond in this supernatural thriller.

When graduate student Aine Cahill uncovers a journal proving that her aunt Bonnie was an intimate companion of Thoreau’s during his supposedly solitary sojourn at Walden Pond, she knows that she has found the perfect subject for her dissertation.
She decides to travel to Walden Pond herself to hunker down and work on her writing, but it quickly becomes clear that all is not as it seems in Thoreau’s woodland retreat. The further Aine delves into Bonnie’s diary the more she finds herself wondering about her family’s sinister legacy and even her own sanity—is there really a young girl lurking in the woods?
As tragedy strikes a nearby town and suspicion falls on Aine, she scrambles to find the truth behind Thoreau’s paradise. 

Ratings and reviews

This book had great potential but fell short. It feels like it was written by someone lacking experience, especially with the character dialogue. Conversations between characters were awkward and repetitive and often did not make sense. The rest of the novel had several plot holes and the language was fairly bland. The ending was a major cliff hangar in which there was absolutely no resolution to any of the problem a in the novel. I'm glad that I got this book on sale and did not spend full price. Sadly, the reviews I read before purchasing it came from "news sources" like writers forums instead of actual customers who werent being paid to write a review.

Loved it !!!

About the author

R. B. Chesterton is the pseudonym for Carolyn Haines, who was the 2010 recipient of the Harper Lee Award for distinguished writing, the 2009 recipient of the Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award, and the 2011 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Amateur Sleuth. She is the author of more than sixty books in a number of genres. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Alabama where she teaches fiction writing.