Rachel Whitley is a high school senior who works part-time at Violetta's, a salon in St. Elizabeth, Georgia. She is excited about an upcoming field-trip at the local Rothmere mansion in which some classmates will go ghost hunting. The problem is that the group is short one chaperone. She asks the women at the salon if there are any recruits, and Grace (Violetta's daughter) reluctantly volunteers after discovering that she is the only person who really has nothing better to do (a hot date with a bowl of popcorn and Julia Roberts DVD).

Chaperoning ends up being a bit more than Grace bargained for when she discovers that there's more than one prankster in the group. And when the plan is for pairs of students to head off to find the ghosts, she's sure some of the pairs have other things on their agenda - after all, these ARE teen-agers! Suddenly, fireworks start going off, and everyone begins running out of the mansion to see the spectacle. But when Rachel begins screaming for help, Grace runs back in to a grisly discovery. Rachel's fellow student Braden McCullers is sprawled out exactly where Cyril Rothmere is said to have died many years ago! Was he pushed or did he fall?

Unfortunately, Braden lapses into a coma, so Rachel asks the women of Violetta's to help her figure out what happened. And the more Grace discovers about the history of the Rothmere's, the more she can't help but wonder if there's some kind of link between history and Braden's incident. Meanwhile, a hurricane is bearing down on the small Georgian town, which puts an even greater sense of urgency on everything. People are evacuating the town -- people who can answer vital questions or even a potential criminal!

This was a really fun book to read, as ghost hunting seems to have a real niche right now, and it worked really well with a mystery. The author also seamlessly worked in the character's senses of humour with a seemingly darker theme. Although I don't tend to like historical novels, Grace's readings of the Rothmere historical archives were kept to a minimum and were enough of a background narrative that they weren't distracting and did prove to be instrumental to the mystery. Overall, DIE JOB was well-written, suspenseful, and well-paced, with a killer twist!