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Lizzy Gordon sees dead people. She keeps seeing dead people who latch onto her until she helps them complete their earthly business. Carl is one of those ghosts, and he gets his kicks by finding endless ways to annoy her, even though she's trying to help find his great-grandmother's grave.

Since nothing in Lizzy's life is simple, this task gets complicated, real fast. First, there's the local state trooper with amazing eyes, then the nasty landowner where Great-Granny's grave is located, and then crazed churchwomen. No, life just isn't simple.

Lizzy is determined to finish out Carl's case so she can go on with her life. No amount of pushing by Officer Jacob, evil landowners, or insistent spirits will stop her from getting free of this ghost. She hopes.

This story was enjoyable in many ways, including Carl's antics, some of the situations Lizzy got into, and so on. The action was well written and believable in most instances.

It falls short, however, in some crucial aspects. There are situations where the reader is thrown a twist that has little to no explanation. It comes from out of nowhere, jarring the reader into thinking "Huh?" Especially disconcerting is the end where the bad guy's secret is revealed, without more than he's-up-to-something-type hints.

Another reader frustration is that the characters have critical choices that don't seem to mesh with what we think of them. For example, Lizzy decides to do something rather bold toward the end, and it seemed counter to her personality, not to mention illegal. It was even more bothersome in an earlier scene where Jacob rescued her from a potential rape and was only "amused" (a word that was overused throughout the book) that she got herself into a situation. As a police officer, he should have been anything but amused that Lizzy was almost brutalized.

There was enough originality to bump this from a "2-Book" to "3-Book" rating. If readers can forgive the above flaws, it IS an entertaining read with enough emotional ups and downs to balance some of what's lacking.

Reviewed by Christina Wantz Fixemer
5-17-2006

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