Publisher's Synopsis
Tom Carney never thought much about death until it happened. After his face hits the floor and his world fades to black, he opens his eyes in a cramped apartment overlooking the mist-shrouded streets of Afterlife, walks downstairs and enters Afterlife Investigations, a detective agency for dead people with issues. Polly, the agency's sublimely efficient secretary, hands him his sheet of rules and tells him in no uncertain terms that he is the new principal investigator. Tom doesn't know why he was chosen, but he can't get out of Afterlife until he helps the other unfortunate souls stuck there with him. Considering his limited options, he takes the job. When beautiful Charlene MacKenzie, the first Mrs. MacKenzie, walks into the agency seeking vengeance for her murder, she knows just who did it...Elena, the second Mrs. MacKenzie. Tom soon learns that to resolve her case he'll have to solve the Elena paradox-how one woman can be ageless and seductive among the living and at the same time catatonic in a dreary apartment in Afterlife. He discovers a phantom child is the key to unmasking an entity neither living nor dead would wish to meet.
