Kirjahaku

Mary Chadwick is bored: little does she know how much her life is about to change! It is not every day one meets a ghost. Nor is it every day – or even every year – that Mary acquires a boyfriend. What a shame the two of them cannot get on – because her new ghostly friend Mike is staying. Mike tells Mary he has returned because he has business to take care of but promises to help her look for a young kidnap victim Mary recognises from the bus to work. Together, they investigate ransom demands, suspects and sightings but to no avail. However, encouraged by Mike’s assurance that the child is safe and waiting for her to take him home, Mary continues her hunt. Running out of clues and with no sign of the boy anywhere, Mary is warned by a clairvoyant that if she does not find him, the child will die on Day 100. And as if that were not enough, Mike is escorted back to the Other Realm over his part in a car accident which nearly kills boyfriend Ben, leaving Mary to solve the mystery and save the little boy alone.

In this sequel to One Hundred Days, Mary Chadwick inherits a farm – complete with body of a local estate agent in the barn. A second murder, that of the son of a neighbouring farmer, sheds little light on the earlier crime. Aided by the ghostly Mike, Mary sets out to find the killer(s), spurred on by the fact that the locals clearly do not want her around and no-one, not even her friends, will tell her why. Digging deeper, Mary finds a connection between the attitude of the villagers and the disappearance of her childhood friend, Ellen, twenty-three years before. Meanwhile, Mike has troubles of his own: he has been tasked with mentoring a group of younger ghosts, and just when he thinks he is getting the hang of it, he is given responsibility for Jerome, a teenage thief who has returned to choose his path after the good and bad things he has done in his life balance out exactly. It is up to Mike to save his soul.