GHOST AT WORK

This new series by Carolyn Hart features a ghost turned sleuth, who works out of heaven's Department of Good Intentions. With warmth and aplomb, Ann Marie Lee reads this cozy, which is blended with improbable fantasy, realistic and lovable characters, and an engrossing plot. She pulls listeners into the story gently and keeps us interested, as well as surprised and amused. Heroine Bailey Ruth, who lived in the 1960s, returns to a 2008 world of cell phones, new fashions, and computers. Lee helps us believe Hart's wonderful accounts of Bailey Ruth's antics and missteps as she solves a murder, thwarts a kidnapping, and clears the pastor's wife of murder. Lee's voice wraps us in the charms of a small town, a charming ghost, and aid sent from heaven. S.C.A. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2009]