Sadie Novak owns an unusual niche business. Scene-2-Clean
deals with the messy cleanup after the police and coroner
have departed. Due to her own personal experience with a
terrible loss, Sadie feels very strongly that no grieving
relative should have to clean away the aftermath of a
relative's death or murder. With little competition, Sadie's
company has only one problem—keeping employees on the job.
Evidently nobody ever considered cleaning up after the dead
their dream vocation. Luckily for her, hunky ex-cop Zack
Bowman hasn't been scared off after about a year on the job.
When Sadie gets the job to clean up a house after a grisly
murder-suicide, she's not surprised to find the murdered
woman's ghost hanging around. Sadie's been seeing ghosts
ever since she started the business and she sees it as part
of her job to help them get to the other side. Trudy is at
first oddly speechless, but she does eventually communicate
with Sadie. Trudy insists that her husband, Grant, did not
murder her. But if Trudy is correct, who did kill her? And
what about Grant's suicide?
As Sadie begins to poke her nose into the closed case,
strange things begin to happen. And when her reputation and
her business are put on the line, Sadie will do whatever it
takes to prove her innocence and to solve the mystery
surrounding the deaths. Will Sadie and Zack uncover the
truth before someone makes her a ghost herself?
THE REMAINS OF THE DEAD is a thoroughly enjoyable mystery.
Sadie is a smart, likable heroine who just happens to have a
knack with ghosts. Squeamish readers should be forewarned
that there are some graphic descriptions of crime scenes and
human remains, which is consistent with running a
crime-scene cleanup business. There's also a real shocker at
the end of the book, which will surprise all but the most
observant of readers. I am eagerly anticipating Ms. Roberts'
next Ghost Dusters mystery.
Sadie Novak has the kind of job that kills cocktail chatter
dead: She owns Scene-2-Clean, a crime scene cleanup
company. And if wiping up after murders weren’t spooky
enough, she can also see and talk to the ghosts of the
victims.
When a grieving relative hires Sadie and her employee, ex-
cop Zack Bowman, to clean up after the murder-suicide of
Trudy and Grant Toth, Sadie figures she’s bound to meet at
least one ghost. Instead she finds herself talking to Kent,
a man she meets at the scene who is very much alive —so
much so, that Sadie agrees to go on a date with him.
When a ghost does appear—the oddly silent Trudy—the spirit
seems determined to prove her husband’s innocence, and
inspires Sadie to track down the real killer. But as Sadie
scours the crime scene, she quickly realizes she’s in way
over her head, that Kent has a strange connection to the
dead couple, and that someone wants her to give up the
ghost...for good.
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