4.5-STAR REVIEW: BONE PENDANT GIRLS by Terry S. Friedman

Publication Date: January 30, 2025

Beware the Fisherman.

Andi Wyndham has communicated with spirits since she was a kid. When a bone pendant carved into the likeness of a girl’s face calls to her at a gem show in Pennsylvania, she can’t resist buying it and a sister piece. When she discovers the girls are missing runaways and the pendants are made of human bone, Andi is drawn into a mystery that will force her to confront her gifts, her guilt, and the ghosts haunting her.

Pendant Girls Mariah and Bennie urge Andi to find a man they call “Fisherman,” a master of disguise. Teaming up with a handsome private eye and a South Carolina sheriff, Andi must find the girls’ bodies and put their souls to rest, before the Fisherman casts his deadly net to trap Andi.

With a front cover featuring a macabre skeleton face, flowers, and butterflies, Bone Pendant Girls effectively demands attention.

Author Terry S. Friedman serves up an intriguing paranormal suspense thriller centered around a main character, Andi, who has communicated with spirits since childhood.

Andi, who is drawn to a set of bone pendants tied to the ghosts of two girls, is tasked with finding The Fisherman. Her goal is to give the girls a final resting place while making sure the killer is stopped.

Told primarily from Andi’s viewpoint, along with a few first-person chapters, the story straddles both the real world and the ghost environment. There’s plenty of humor interspersed amongst the suspenseful twists and turns.

Bone Pendant Girls takes readers on a supernatural journey to find justice for two murdered girls.

Terry Friedman is a writer and a rockhound. Her novel, BONE PENDANT GIRLS, a paranormal thriller, was published by CamCat January 30, 2024.

Terry began her writing career freelancing for a small newspaper outside Philadelphia. While raising her daughters Jessica and Chelie in West Chester, PA, she taught English for decades and traveled abroad with students. Terry earned an M.F.A. from Wilkes University and also graduated from the FBI Citizens Academy. Thirteen of her fiction and non-fiction pieces have been published, and she co-edited Delaware Valley Mystery Writers’ short stories anthology. DEATH KNELL V.

She is an award-winning author. In 2022 the Southeastern Writers Association awarded her first place in their writing contest for her humor piece, second place for BONE PENDANT GIRLS in a fiction category, and an honorable mention for THE BANSHEE’S WAIL, an unpublished Irish novel. She is a Killer Nashville Claymore Finalist in the Supernatural category.

A Pennwriters Board member and a member of Sisters in Crime, she currently writes thrillers from coastal South Carolina. Terry has traveled the world from Fiji to Delphi and brings to her writing a solid respect for things that go bump in the night.