While traveling to begin her new life at the F.B.I. Academy Vickie Preston and her fiancé Special Agent and Krewe member Griffin Pryce stop for a romantic weekend in Baltimore. The first night Vickie has a dream about Edgar Allan Poe, where she is actually Poe himself. Next morning Griff gets a call from his boss stating that there has been a murder of a well-known author in the basement of a Poe themed restaurant. Thus ends the romantic weekend planned as they investigate the WICKED DEEDS. Before all is said and done they find another disturbing death and mysterious activities that follow along with the lines of works by Poe. Someone is using these macabre works to kill. Can they stop the killer before anyone else dies?

WICKED DEEDS is the final of the Preston-Pryce trilogy that is part of author Heather Graham's Krewe of Hunters series. I enjoy the mystery and history of the Krewe series that this author always supplies. To be honest Poe was not one of my favorite must reads in high school English class but, I found myself actually looking him up after reading this book. It was intriguing how Ms. Graham used the mystery of his death and the name "Reynolds" that he called for in his delirium (per his biography) to give an interesting twist to what might have happened to him those last days of his life.

In this offering, we got to see Vickie more into the agent mode that she plans for her life with Griff. We also got to meet up with Jackson Crowe, his wife Angela and their big boss Adam Harrison, who seemed very pleased with the soon to be a member of the Krewe. There are many interesting characters, a wannabe medium; slightly spoiled rich girl; bookstore owner; Poe enthusiasts, cops and F.B.I and as this is a Krewe book -- ghosts. I admit that with this one the "bad guy" came as a surprise, didn't see that twist coming at all.

If you want a mystery, history, a team of people who work together, back each other and a couple who find they can face anything the future offers then WICKED DEEDS is the book you want.

Book Summary

Nevermore…

Eager to start their life together, historian Vickie Preston and Special Agent Griffin Pryce take a detour en route to their new home in Virginia and stop for a visit in Baltimore. But their romantic weekend is interrupted when a popular author is found dead in the basement of an Edgar Allan Poe–themed restaurant. Because of the mysterious circumstances surrounding the corpse, the FBI's Krewe of Hunters paranormal team is invited to investigate. As more bizarre deaths occur, Vickie and Griffin are drawn into a case that has disturbing echoes of Poe's great works, bringing the horrors of his fiction to life.

The restaurant is headquarters to scholars and fans, and any of them could be a merciless killer. Except there's also something reaching out from beyond the grave. The late, great Edgar Allan Poe himself is appearing to Vickie in dreams and visions with cryptic information about the murders. Unless they can uncover whose twisted mind is orchestrating the dramatic re-creations, Vickie and Griffin's future as a couple might never begin…