Camino Ghosts

A Novel (Camino, Book 3)

De: John Grisham

Narrado por: Whoopi Goldberg, John Grisham

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Will an ancient curse darken the skies over Camino Island? Bruce Cable and Mercer Mann are about to find out.

Look for John Grisham’s forthcoming legal thriller, The Widow. This time, the verdict isn’t the end of the story.

Mercer Mann, a popular writer from Camino Island, is back on the beach, marrying her boyfriend, Thomas, in a seaside ceremony. Bruce Cable, infamous owner of Bay Books, performs the wedding. Afterward, Bruce tells Mercer that he has stumbled upon an incredible story. Mercer desperately needs an idea for her next novel, and Bruce now has one.

The true story is about Dark Isle, a sliver of a barrier island not far off the North Florida coast. It was settled by freed slaves three hundred years ago, and their descendants lived there until 1955, when the last one was forced to leave. That last descendant is Lovely Jackson, elderly now, who loves her birthplace and its remarkable history. But now Tidal Breeze, a huge, ruthless corporate developer, wants to build a resort and casino on the island, which Lovely knows, deep down, is rightfully hers.

Mercer befriends Lovely, and they plunge into an enormous fight over who owns Dark Isle, taking on Tidal Breeze Corporation, its lawyers, lobbyists, and powerful Florida politicians. But Lovely knows something about the island that could seriously cloud the dollar signs in the developer’s eyes: the island is cursed. It has remained uninhabited for nearly a century for some very real and very troubling reasons. The deep secrets of the past are about to collide with the enormous ambitions of the present, and the fate of Dark Isle—and Camino Island, too—hangs in the balance.

Look for all of John Grisham’s rollicking Camino novels:
Camino Island
Camino Winds
Camino Ghosts

Reseñas de la Crítica

Praise for Camino Ghosts

“Light-hearted . . . The Camino books have felt like palate cleansers for Grisham, something fun to do before tackling the weightier issues that usually form the backbone of books such as The Client. . . . Grisham makes sure the book moves like the winds that buffet his fictional island.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune


Praise for the Camino Island series

“A fresh, fun departure . . . sheer catnip . . . a most agreeable summer destination.”—USA Today

“The type of wild but smart caper that Grisham’s readers love.”—Delia Owens, bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing

“A happy lark [that] provides the pleasure of a leisurely jaunt periodically jolted into high gear, just for the fun and speed of it.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Escapist entertainment . . . with elements of a more traditional Grisham thriller.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times


Praise for John Grisham

“The best thriller writer alive.”—Ken Follett

Maybe grab the paper version to avoid narration

Story wise I think this is as good as the first two of the series. This is the first of this series i tried the audio version and Whoopi’s narration is sort of distracting to me. She reads it in a way I would describe as how you read a bed time story to your kid. It is frustrating to listen to because of this. But again the story and the actual book itself is still very good I’d just maybe opt not to do the audio version.

Disappointed

Definitely my least favorite of the trilogy.
The narrator was horrible. I wish Michael Beck had been used again.

Whoopi wasn’t a great choice.

This was difficult to get through a lot of the time. Goldberg’s narration was clunky and she didn’t seem to put much effort in to any dialogue unless it was from Lovely. Also, the story was just so-so. Interesting attempt to weave a legal drama into this.
Last, I had about the same opinion of Lovely as I do of Whoopi in real life, so I thought it was a little ironic that Grisham stated he wanted Whoopi to narrate because of Lovely.

Disappointing

Good story as you expect from Grisham, but story lost by the narrator. Love Goldberg but her narration lost the story. Not the right fit.

Good story but narration ill-suited

I recently read the first two books in this series. I think I liked the first the best. I did enjoy this story but thought Whoopi Goldberg’s narration was very poorly suited. Her New York accent was wrong for a story in set in the south and I thought was both too harsh and not varied enough for the characters.