My rating: 4 of 5 stars
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I really enjoyed this second installment of the Southern Ghost Hunter series. I really like the main character, Verity, and her ghostly partner in crime, Frankie. He's a gangster that she accidentally bound to her property when she dumped his ashes in her flower bed and watered them in. He wants to go wandering, looking for a good card game and maybe a ghostly dame or two, but he can't roam any farther than her driveway unless Verity hauls his urn to their destination.
Their adventures alternate between trying to set Frankie free and trying to solve mysteries of their small town of Sugarland. The investigative portion of these activities is often aided by Sheriff Ellis Wydell, Verity's maybe-boyfriend who is also brother to the man she almost married. The one who cheated on her and made a pass at her sister and who shafted her with the bills for the wedding that didn't happen.
Having sold everything she possibly can to hopefully hold onto her house, Verity hopes to regain her good standing in the small community, the social scene of which is lorded over by her almost mother-in-law. Verity must be careful not to reveal her ability to communicate with ghosts or nothing she can do will save her reputation.
Fox has built in a clever rivalry between Ellis and his brother, the charming cad Beau. The budding romance between Verity and Ellis is mirrored by a new relationship between two ghosts who play a large part in this adventure. They are, after all, still human although they are dead, just not gone.
I paid my own cash for this book and I think I'm willing to pay for book three as well.
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