Wendy Roberts

When Sadie and her sexy partner Zack stumble on evidence of a chilling cult ritual in an abandoned meth lab, Sadie comes face to face with an evil spirit unlike any she's ever seen before. And it's no coincidence that a bundle of stolen cash turns up at her next crime scene just in time to convince a biker gang that Sadie made off with their money. She knows the threads are connected—but how?

Sadie Novak's got the kind of job that kills cocktail chatter dead: she owns Scene-2-Clean a crime scene cleanup company. And if wiping up after murders weren't spooky enough, she can also see and talk to the ghosts of the victims...When grieving relatives hire Sadie and her employee, ex-cop Zack Bowman, to clean up after the murder-suicide of Trudy and Grant Toth, Sadie figures she's bound to meet at least one chatty ghost. But Kent, the man Sadie first encounters at the scene, is very much alive—so much so, that Sadie soon finds herself agreeing to a date with him.Then a real ghost shows up—the oddly silent spirit of Trudy, who seems determined to prove that her husband's innocence, and inspires Sadie to track down the real killer. But as she scours the crime scene, Sadie quickly realizes she's in way over her head, that Kent has a strange connection to the dead couple, and that someone wants her to give up the ghost…for good.

Agatha receives a less than welcome invitation to ex-husband James's wedding to a beautiful, younger woman. But it's one wedding and a funeral when the bride is murdered on her big day.

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Sadie Novak cleans up crime scenes for a living, and often finds herself face-to-face with the earthbound spirits. Her dad passes away and is reluctant to leave, and while she's cleaning up the house of a hoarder, she finds the 17-year-old mummified remains of an infant, as well as a very angry ghost who wants to keep Sadie away from the house.

A BLIND DATE WITH DEATH It's not easy getting back into the dating scene after fourteen years of marriage and eight years as a divorcee. But armed with a gift certificate to the New You Center for Dating, Jimi Plain is headed for action, thanks to her determined grandmother and two teenage daughters. The problems begin when she arrives early for her videotaped interview and finds her drop-dead-gorgeous dating counselor...dead. Is it a crime of passion, the work of a disgruntled dater, or something even more insidious? As Jimi eases into courses designed to whip her into marketable shape, she scouts suspects: the aggressively charming owner, the buff trainers, the flirtatious counselors--and the lovelorn clients. When Jimi's own budding social life takes a dangerous turn, she gets the message: she's too close for comfort. But it's too late to leave the sleuthing to her detective cousin. The killer has just struck again. And Jimi thinks she knows who's next.... Jimi Plain - 2