I love it when you get two good books in a row! Alison Hart is a psychic who makes a living doing James Van Praagh-type séances. Unfortunately for her, her gift is real, which means that an entire neighborhood of shifty characters from her past are after her from the other side. Her entire existence centers around keeping them away while her assistant Colette deals with the practical earthly issues, like money (the grasping Colette is hilariously monstrous).
The book drags a bit at times, almost tipping over into tortured-child territory (those books with faded pictures of sad looking kids on the front, and inside it's all about how the sad looking kids' mothers were burning them with crack pipes and whoring them out to the local one-legged man, and also the kids were ugly, to boot). But the quality of the writing keeps it from being mawkish.
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