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!
After an attempted murder at a supposedly haunted
plantation, the ladies of Violetta's beauty salon unravel
secrets that link a high school student, a centuries-old
crime, and the roots to a very dark mystery.
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