Third Grave Dead Ahead

Starred review from December 5, 2011
In Jones’s high-energy third paranormal romantic thriller featuring smart, wickedly hilarious grim reaper and PI Charley Davidson (after 2011’s Second Grave on the Left), hunky son of Satan Reyes Farrow distracts Charley from her search for the missing wife of an egotistical doctor, who’s strangely unmoved by his wife’s disappearance. Every time Charley closes her eyes, she summons an intense, sexually ravenous Reyes, who angrily insists that she find his stepfather, whom he was falsely accused of killing. Meanwhile, a woman who eavesdrops on angels worries Charley about the upcoming death of someone destined to become her guardian, a motorcycle gang pleads for help finding a dog killer, and Charley’s family does everything they can to persuade her to go into less dangerous work. Jones pulls all the craziness together in the end while leaving plenty of open threads to pull the reader into the next installment. Agent: Janklow & Nesbit.

It's business as usual for kick-ass P.I. Charley Davidson, who also happens to be the Grim Reaper. In the latest novel in this highly entertaining series, all of which have been narrated by Lorelei King, Charley must find a missing wife, deal with the dead who help and hinder her daily, and stay away from the demons who are trying to use her as a portal to heaven. What's more, she must do it all without sleep, so as to avoid her dreams, which are filled with X-rated encounters with the oh-so-dreamy Reyes Farrow (aka the Son of Satan). This witty listen is full of clever dialogue and memorable characters, all dished up with relish by a narrator who knows how to deliver. A.C.P. (c) AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine