Adam Meyer is deeply troubled and needs to get away. Everyone recommends going hiking at the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately for Adam someone pushes him over the edge to his death. However, the police rule his death as a suicide and do not do any investigating.

Cleo Sims is a grief counselor with an controversial way of helping her patients. She has a special therapy called the Contact Project. The Contact Project helps clients get in touch with loved ones who have died so that there can be closure.

Sharon Meyer desperately wants to see if the Contact Project could help her contact Adam. She doesn’t accept that Adam killed himself as they were so happy. The more Cleo finds out about details surrounding the death of Adam, the more suspicious she is that his death was no accident.

Who could have killed him and why? There are quite a few suspects. All of them have secrets and all of them want to keep their secrets hidden at all costs.

Cleo believes deeply in her Contact Project. Tyler, a true ‘surfing dude’, is a spirit that she unintentionally contacts during her first time in the “apparition room”. He pops in and out of Cleo’s world every once in a while giving her clues. The problem is the clues are in surfer’s lingo and very vague. The one consistent message is that she “needs to ride the wave to the end”.

Cleo’s biggest problem throughout is - who can she trust? What was bothering Adam so much that he had to go away to think about it? The mystery deepens and gets more complicated the more she finds out leading to a very exciting and unexpected stand off towards the end.

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Cleo is a psychologist who works with bereaved families. She uses psychic measures to help the families contact their dead relatives. She also has a spirit contact called Tyler, a surfer dude. Sharon asks her to help after her husband dies in mysterious circumstances and Cleo decides to investigate further.
This is a light easy read. Various diversions keep the pace moving along. Ideal beach or plane fare. ( )

Great story!

The body of a hiker named as Adam Meyer is found at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.Was it accidental death,suicide or murder ? Into the picture comes psychologist Cleo Sims ,who is contacted by the grieving widow Sharon to ascertain what really happened to her husband. Add in Cleo's Contact Project, which involves trying to contact dead spirits and her talking to Tyler , a dead surf dude , who appears with cryptic clues and disappears again with no answers and we have a well crafted crime novel with unusual trimmings and beautifully described mountain scenes. The other cast of characters and sub-plot involving Cleo's grandma in a nursing home suffering from Alzheimer's, her boyfriend Pablo who is a sceptical detective, Sharon's friend Erik who is mysterious and dangerous and her academic father Doctor Waycroft who is opposed to Cleo's project. The novel was well -written and I enjoyed reading same with the surprise ending.The author has produced a very entertaining book with many imaginative features. ( )

This is the first in the Cleo and Tyler mysteries. Cleo is a pyschotherapist and a grief counselor. Her dear friend and mentor is Elisa who teaches in the University's psychology department. Elisa refers one of her Clients to Cleo because the woman has recently lost her husband whom she believes to be have been murdered.
The thing is that Cleo doesn't work alone. She has been visited by the spirit of a young man (Tyler). Tyler is a surfer dude who shows up when he feels like doing so and gives Cleo very cryptic messages to help direct her in helping the young widow.

I like how Osterskamp is able to combine the slight bit of the paranormal with very a very realistic investigation. Cleo doesn't set out to solve the murder, but that's exactly what she does (with Tyler's advice.) Osterkamp keeps the reader guessing throughout as theree are several possible suspects and things become very suspieniseful when Elisa is taken hostage by the murderer and almost dies do to injures. Kept me riveted right to the last page. According to the author,
Cleo's Contact Project was partially inspired by the works of Raymond Moody. ( )