Good mystery book - Mom, you might like this one

I read this book yesterday. Yes, the whole thing. Nice, slow day. Excellent, fast-paced book.

The main character runs a cleaning service in Seattle that cleans up crime scenes. They specialize in cleaning up blood and guts (there's another company in town that does the meth lab cleanups), so there are some icky images and dark humor at times. So not only does she clean it up with the help of her employee, but often the dead people come to see her, but only the ones who, uh, haven't yet gone into the light. She often has to convince them that they really are dead or agree to pass on the message they think they have to leave before they go.

So she's cleaning up a murder-suicide and a man walks in. She assumes that he is a ghost and doesn't even pay close attention, but she later learns that it wasn't the murderer, but a real, live person, a friend of the dead couple, who had no business being in the house. Then she meets the ghost of the murdered wife who is trying to communicate about what happened, but can't.

I figured out the mystery before the main character did, but she was emotionally invested in the wrong answer. But there was another, smaller mystery that totally blindsided me and I had to go back through to look for references that should have niggled more than they did.

Anyway, lots of adventure, several ghosts, another medium gets involved, a few kisses but Mom will be glad to know nothing steamy, and just overall a really good plot.

And now I have to wait until December 08 to read the next in the series! Augh!

ETA: I just requested her first mystery book, "Dating Can Be Deadly" from the library. I guess that'll have to hold me for a bit....