I bought this a long time ago. The writer is/was local and someone recommended her. I don't think I managed to finish it - it was just barely short of pornography. My sister read it and liked it enough to buy the next book in the series, so I gave it another shot.
Basically, I still think it isn't very far from pornography, but I managed to read past that and finish it. It had some merit - in terms of setting (Albuquerque) and characters. Charley (Charlotte) Davidson sees dead people - and chats with them. Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas merely sees them, but they follow him around. Charley's dead people follow her around and talk to her. To converse with them in public, she pretends to be talking on a cell phone. The recently dead tell her what has happened, which makes her a real whiz at solving murders.
Then we get into the super-supernatural and - shades of "Ghost Whisperer" - her job is to help them pass over to "the other side." This is also the subject of many cute punny asides.
Oh well, I probably will go ahead and read book two - but I intend to read another more conventional mystery or two first.
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