There are parts of the middle section of the book which I found a bit lumpy, and this is a book to read more for the characters than for the mystery, but they're the kinds of issues that are fairly common-or-garden first-novel issues that should be easy to iron out in future books. Claire meets loads of dead people, and if I'm remembering right all of them just died because that's what people do. It ended up getting a lot more emotional than I thought it would, but there are also plenty of funny moments to round everything out.

And Sophie is witty and clever and forever frozen as a teenager, unable to interact with the world without Claire, unable to fully live or die.Hired by a rich family for their Nana’s birthday party, Claire and Sophie find themselves drawn into the mystery of an unquiet spirit who, they believe, was murdered by a member of the family. Whilst it was a serious storyline as there was a lot at stake there were also moments that made me laugh out loud! Together with family members Basher and Alex they now need to find out who was murdered on the family estate before the murderer can catch up with them.

In fact, Sophie rarely leaves Claire's side, because she's been haunting her ever since she was murdered at the age of 17.

She has probably read more detective fiction and watched more episodes of Midsomer Murders than you. The accent was a little difficult for me to understand at times, so I did end up listening to this at around 2.