Intriguing and spooky premise. Southern gothic.

“Bluegrass lyrics are almost always about death, loss, and unrequited love, but the music - the noise we make with our banjos and fiddles - is joyful. The dead are always with us, even after their ghosts move on, but it's the life pulsing through our veins that makes the music.“

Beautiful and thought-provoking but not always easy to read. Most poignant passage: “As I sat there in the cafe, it suddenly occurred to me that it is no mistake when sometimes in films and literature the dead know they are dead after being offered that most irrefutable proof: they can no longer see themselves in the mirror.“

2nd in series about Eve Ronin, youngest homicide detective in Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and crusader for justice.

Nakamura to Eve: “When you buy a puzzle, there's a picture on the box of what you're putting together. That's handy, because it tells you how the hundreds of pieces are supposed to fit together. In your job, you just get the pieces without the box. You have to put the pieces together without the pictures to guide you...“