Dying for Redemption

Rating:
Summary: Mystery At It's Best
Review: It seems our main character in this high rolling mystery is dead. How is that for a beginning to a read? What an ingenious idea; I loved it right away, and I was anxious to dig my teeth into this one.

Callous was murdered, and is now living in Limbo along with others who also were murdered, and must stay there long enough to get their questions answers. At that time they would either go to Heaven or Hell. Yikes! This was getting good; I read on; I had to know how the author was going to write a murder mystery with dead people being the main characters. Talk about a challenge.

In life, Callous was a PI and he was killed during an investigation where he was searching for a missing girl. He has been in Limbo for over 50 years and has opened a PI office, where he helps those who are there find out who killed them so that they can move on to wherever they are going. Creepy!

The story takes you to the house of his great-grandniece who is now in college and is doing a paper for her class. She has decided to investigate the murder of her great uncle and someone had to stop her, the truth could not be told. She is murdered and ends up in Limbo with her uncle. They team up with several other colorful characters that were murdered as well, to solve all of their mysteries. What a group.

I loved the character Callous. I enjoyed his wit and enjoyed watching him work through many of his own inward struggles. The moving between the living and the dead kept this reader on her toes and kept my interest high,
as the author weaved the story of several murders neatly throughout the read. Yes, this kept you guessing until the end, with all the normal questions of the who's what's and why's with each case.

To me this novel was like a breath of fresh air. It reminded me a little of the old movie "Topper", and the idea of a dead PI doing investigations was so
intriguing that you just couldn't put the book down. I have to highly recommend this read. Different, ingenious and attention grabbing. Don't miss this one.

Shirley Johnson/Senior Reviewer
MidWest Book Review