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By Ramona Emerson

This is one of the first books I've purchased in a while. I did so after hearing an interview with the author

on Fresh Air. It sounded like nothing I'd read in a long time. After I bought it, I sat on it for a long time. It's a thin novel, and I guess I was enjoying the anticipation of the story. When I did crack the pages, I wasn't disappointed.

The book is the story of Rita Todacheene, who works as a forensic photographer in Albuquerque, NM. She's had a fascination with cameras and photography since she was young. Dead people, too. It turns out she was able to see them when others couldn't. It is/was at once a gift and an affliction; it allowed her to connect with her dead grandfather; but other spirits had come to her demanding justice. That was the case when Rita showed up to document a particularly grisly death that involved a woman falling from an overpass before being smashed to bits by unsuspecting cars below. It was ruled a suicide, but the woman in question shows up in Rita's life and is quite insistent that it was murder. She won't let Rita rest until the truth is unraveled.

This book had it all. It was funny in parts, suspenseful in others. It kept me rapt and it was done all too soon -- just as I suspected.