How do you make friends with a ghost? Ruby has moved into a crappy Boston apartment previously rented by a dead woman, Cordelia, who presumably committed suicide. Ruby is still using Cordelia's furniture and kitchen paraphernalia. A spectral Cordelia has watched Ruby kill her plants and donate her clothes.
Cordelia has only seen one other ghost: her across the hall neighbour, Jake, who promptly says, “I don't believe in ghosts" and disappears. She has spent time figuring out what she can and can't do. What else has she got to do with her time?
Ruby is a believer and is sure that Cordelia is still sharing the apartment. Now if they can only connect somehow. Cordelia wants to figure out who killed Jake while protecting Ruby. Despite this, Ruby gets interested in solving the crime too. Their difficulty communicating provides some humour--there's only so much you can do with magnetic fridge poetry.
Frankly, the mystery is less interesting than the budding friendship between the two women. We learn more about them as the book progresses, probably a little more about Cordelia. However, it's obvious that Cordy still has secrets that Ruby hasn't sniffed out yet. I expect that the next book will fill in some blanks in Ruby's life too. Just who is Jerkface, the cheating boyfriend that she moved to Boston to get away from? Can she stand to stay away from her family?
I'll willingly read the next volume. This was warm, fuzzy, and cozy.
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