That trope – the everyone-else-wants-to-plan-our-wedding one – is one I have little patience with not only do I not understand why people spend a fortune on weddings, I don’t understand why two grown men in their late thirties can’t – politely – tell everyone to just butt out and let them do it their way. Like the other books in the Spectral Filesseries, The Spooky Life combines a supernatural mystery with the ongoing development of the central relationship, but although Rain’s snarky voice is as entertaining as ever, the mystery feels a bit thin and the whole wedding-planning-thing seems, at times, to have taken over. When we encounter them again here, they’re well into planning their wedding… or rather, Danny’s mother is well into planning it and is insisting on dragging the two of them (kicking and screaming metaphorically at least) into it as well. When we last saw Detectives Rain Christiansen and Danny McKenna – at the end of Spooky Business – they’d narrowly survived being murdered by a vengeful ghost, and just got engaged. If he doesn’t turn things around-and quickly-his spooky life might be cut short for good. And Rain realizes he’s been so busy trying to protect Danny that he forgot to protect himself. Before long, his simple missing person’s case takes a dark and twisted turn. Finding people is pretty high on the list of things that Rain does best.īut when it comes to ghosts, nothing is ever quite what it seems. She still manages to request that they find her dear friend, Cherry Parker, so that she can say goodbye. Their latest case involves Hannah Caldwell, a silent ghost who can’t-or won’t-speak. The hoopla is enough to make him wish for a quick flight to Vegas and an Elvis officiant.Īt least work is keeping Rain and the PTU plenty busy. He’s finally taking that enormous step with fellow detective, Daniel McKenna, and he couldn’t be happier. That’s not to say everything is going smoothly-there’s a wedding in the works, after all. But he’s finally finding his groove as a reluctant medium and cold-case detective.

Rain Christiansen isn’t sure he’ll ever fully understand the supernatural.

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Coddiwomple by S.E. Harmon