A New Lease on Death by Olivia Blacke
Cordelia Graves is convinced the death of her neighbor, Jake, is not the mugging gone wrong that the cops think it is. The main obstacle to her ability to investigate it is the fact that Cordelia herself has been dead for several months. To help her out, she enlists the help of Ruby Young, the perky 20-year-old who is renting Cordelia's former apartment. The two unlikely roommates are an odd pair. Cordelia is quiet, likes to read, and is a bit of a drinker. Ruby is bubbly, not much of a reader, and an underage near teetotaler. Ruby very much believes in ghosts and is delighted to think she may be sharing an apartment with one. Once they work out a rudimentary form of communication, the two begin an investigation into Jake's life and try to figure out why he was murdered. This story is a lot of fun, mostly because the two main characters are so enjoyable, and because the ghostly mechanics are terribly interesting! Ghost stories where the ghosts can communicate very easily wi
