"breezy paranormal mystery"
When her brother committed suicide five years ago, Sadie
Novak was the one who cleaned out his house in order to
spare her parents the pain. Immediately afterward, she
quit her teaching position to open up Scene-2-Clean, a
firm that performs crime scene cleanups in the Seattle
area. She gains immense satisfaction from her work
because she saves the victim's family from the trauma of
performing the difficult deed, which can include blood
splattered seemingly everywhere. Sadie also has another
ability that gives her in some ways even greater
satisfaction. She meets the ghosts who were killed in the
house and helps them pass on. Her current assignment is the Toth residence where a
murder suicide occurred. There she meets Kent Lasko who
she assumes is a ghost. Instead she learns he was a
friend of the couple and then she wants to know why he was
in the house. He explains that he came to retrieve a
piece of jewelry that belonged to his mother that he gave
to the victim; he also says he was having an affair with
Trudy Toth. Not long afterward, Grant Toth's mother
claims a piece of jewelry is missing and the police find
it on Sadie. She believes Kent planted it and this makes
her wonder why as she postulates whether he was involved
in the two deaths. She begins an investigation that leads
to her being shot at twice which makes her dig all the
deeper. This is a breezy paranormal mystery filled with witty at
times graveyard dry dialog inside a fascinating yet
foreboding plot. Sadie is an amateur sleuth who never
quits whether it is cleaning a place or investigating a
crime. Her associate Zack Bowman is a disgraced ex-cop;
although they have never kissed there is a strong
attraction between them. The whodunit is cleverly
executed with the heroine obtaining help from Zack and
Trudy's ghost who want the truth known by identifying
their killer. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 2, 2007
SummarySadie Novak cleans up grisly crime scenes. She's also a
medium who can see ghosts. It seems a husband has murdered
his cheating wife, then turned a gun on himself. However,
Sadie finds evidence that after killing his wife, he
stripped, showered, changed, and then killed himself. Why?
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