I'm enjoying this series, even though I do not much like the personality of the main character - Sadie Novak, crime scene cleaner and ghost whisperer. It almost felt like there should be an exclamation point after that, but she really does leave me slightly underwhelmed. So no exclamation point for her. One for me, though!
Seriously - it's a fantastic series and this is the third book in. I really like the plot. It's mildly scary and definitely hard to pick the real baddies - rare for most crime books. I love the rabbit, Hairy - a very fitting name, and I liked Sadie much better in books one and two. She was less perfect, more frightened and uncertain, but still determined to do the right thing. Until book three - she's still frightened, but she's bordering on the kind of arrogant perfection that makes your teeth ache. I hope book four brings her back down-to-earth, so to speak, and returns her to her bumbling, anxious, less-than-perfect self. Honestly, a ghost is trying to kill you and you worry about eating a biscuit because you haven't jogged in a few days? Puh-leez! Focus girl!
So who is Sadie? She's a 30-something who can speak to ghosts and send them on their merry way to whatever afterlife awaits them. Unfortunately she often has to solve their murders before they'll leave - and Seattle seems to have a lot of murders. Which is how Sadie, the crime-scene cleaning lady (honestly was her name a coincidence or is the author a John Farnham fan?) tends to meet her often less-than-friendly ghosts.
How did she get this curse/gift? It's passed down through the family. When the current ghost whisperer dies a new one is called. It's like vampire slayers - only you often look like you're talking to and fighting yourself. Sadie's Uncle, who spent most of his life in an asylum, passed it to Sadie's brother Brian, who promptly killed himself, leaving Sadie reigning ghostbuster to dead Seattlites.
Honestly, try Book 1 - The Remains of the Dead, it won't disappoint.
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