Karma Marx is a transmortis anomaly exterminator or in
other words she exorcises spirits and entities to the
Akashic Plain where they dwell in perpetual torment until
they are released. Karma has been working for the Akashic
League exterminating spirits because she was charged with
wergeld for an accidental murder. Karma is also half
poltergeist which gives her special abilities that mere
humans don't have.
Karma's marriage to Spider has been shaky for a while but
after receiving some disturbing pictures, she's had enough
of his sick ways. Karma wants a divorce. The only problem
is Spider wants Karma to clean aka exterminate one more
house before he grants her a divorce. This house is one
that Spider bought from a poltergeist named Adam. Karma
doesn't know the whole story about the house when she
arrives to exterminate and is shocked when she meets the
owner, Adam, still living there.
Karma has a habit of not truly exterminating the houses she
cleans. Sometimes she tends to take the spirits back to her
home as house guests and unbeknownst to her Spider is well
aware of her dirty little secret. Since Karma can't be
trusted to do the job right, Spider shows up at the house
with his partner Meredith. An argument ensues over who the
rightful owner of the house is, and along with a couple
other people, the house is put under a seal by Adam.
Everyone is trapped in the house until the seal is released
and questions are answered.
When one of the ''house guests'' ends up murdered, everyone
is a suspect. Secrets are uncovered and pasts are brought
back to the surface. No one trusts each other and there is
a murderer amongst them. Will Karma and Adam be able to
find the killer before they murder another person?
GHOST OF A CHANCE is a paranormal murder mystery with a
surprise ending. While the mystery was tightly plotted, I
found the ending to be implausible and out of left field.
Some of the subject matter is too dark for the light
humorous tone of the story and feels out of place. I
struggled to finish this short book because of the lack of
characterization and blandness of the writing. Several made
up words are used to describe things in the Otherworld, but
they are never fully explained. Also, the
darker subject matter makes it too much for a child to
read in my opinion. I wasn't thrilled with this book.
Karma Marx exorcises haunted houses, sending troublesome
poltergeists and other spirits to the ever after. But one
assignment traps Karma, her foster child, her sleazy
soon-to-be-ex husband, Spider, and his crooked partner under
one roof. And when Spider turns up dead, it's a locked house
mystery, and Karma's determined to reveal the truth, even if
it means tackling all of the mansion's inhabitants-mortal
and otherwise...
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