Ruby Young's new Boston apartment comes with all the usual perks. Windows facing the brick wall of the next-door building. Heat that barely works. A malfunctioning buzzer. Noisy neighbors. A dead body on the sidewalk outside. And of course, a ghost.
Since Cordelia Graves died in her apartment a few months ago, she's kept up her residency, despite being bored out of her (non-tangible) skull and frustrated by her new roommate. When her across-the-hall neighbor, Jake Macintyre, is shot and killed in an apparent mugging gone wrong outside their building, Cordelia is convinced there’s more to it and is determined to bring his killer to justice.
Unfortunately, Cordelia, being dead herself, can't solve the mystery alone. She has to enlist the help of the obnoxiously perky, living tenant of her apartment. Ruby is twenty, annoying, and has never met a houseplant she couldn't kill. But she also can do everything Cordelia can't, from interviewing suspects to researching Jake on the library computers that go up in a puff of smoke if Cordelia gets too close. As the roommates form an unlikely friendship and get closer to the truth about Jake's death, they also start to uncover other dangerous secrets.
I enjoyed the plot line and the creativity behind it. It felt very similar to episodes of Angel, where Cordelia, played by Charisma Carpenter, moves into a haunted apartment (if you don’t know what I am talking about, please look it up.) This also didn’t resonate as a thriller for me. I just didn’t feel a lot of suspense, or hang off the edge of my seat. I did want to undercover what happened to the book character Cordelia, which is why I kept reading.
Everything felt sort of rushed, though. As if this mystery wasn’t the main investigation, but more like a filler investigation to set up the main one. I just felt this sense of something was missing throughout the novel. Everything made sense, but there’s a feeling of more.
Overall, I rate this novel 4 out of 5 stars.
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