Catching Up With… J.L. Bryan’s Ellie Jordan Ghost Trapper Series – The Monster Museum

Posted 28 July, 2023 by Heather in Blog, Book Review, Catching Up With..., Heather Book Review / 0 Comments

The first installment of Catching Up With… features THE MONSTER MUSEUM, book #10 in J.L. Bryan’s Ellie Jordan Ghost Trapper series.

I could go on and on about how much I love J.L. Bryan’s books and writings, and I highly recommend any of his standalones and series for paranormal and horror lovers. This series features Ellie Jordan who investigates hauntings at the request of clients all over the south. With her tech-focused, side-kick employee Stacy, Ellie finds a way to deal with the ghosts as well as the families in all their weird, quirky situations.

In THE MONSTER MUSEUM, Ellie finds herself a bit further north than they usually travel for a case. This time she’s traveling solo from sunny Georgia for a picturesque, mountain town in Tennessee. While that’s still south in this Midwesterner’s world, the further away from home and her failed relationships with fireman Michael and his sister that never liked Ellie, the better at that moment. Finding herself investigating hauntings at a creepy museum over the Christmas holiday, Ellie finds invisible things there that are more dangerous than the black ice she encounters during the mountainous travels for this case.

What I loved about this book is Ellie’s willingness to put herself out there, whether it’s investigating on her own or easing into the possibility of a new relationship. Investigating alone breaks her number one rule, but she dives headfirst into the creepy museum and when interacting with the handsome, single father who now owns the place.

The tension of Ellie’s personal life going down the tubes while she takes a beating at every investigation has been ratcheting up from book to book. While the ghost of her mother and father’s murderer is getting closer to making Ellie join them, it’s terrifying to see just how close the danger comes to all Ellie holds dear. When an entity can travel, danger lurks everywhere.

The families involved, as well as the type of haunting, change with every book so it never feels stale or boring. Many quirky people and interesting settings make this series one that I come back to every time a new one is published. Excellent writing, great character development as well as fantastic pacing.

This book is available on Kindle Unlimited at the time of this post. It is also available on paperback, kindle, and also audiobook. Why not start at book one if you haven’t yet?

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About J.L. Bryan

J. L. Bryan studied English literature at the University of Georgia and at Oxford, with a focus on the English Renaissance and the Romantic period. He also studied screenwriting at UCLA. He enjoys remixing elements of paranormal, supernatural, fantasy, horror and science fiction into new kinds of stories.

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I'm a PhD chemist who loves sarcasm, music, and books-paranormal, mystery, thriller, suspense, horror, and romance. Most of my free time is spent at the martial arts studio these days--whether practicing Combat Hapkido or reading books while watching my son's Taekwondo classes, or even working up a sweat with Kickboxing for fun. Goodreads