He Buried Me First: 1

My husband buried me first. Coming back was the easy part.Isaac spent years making me believe our marriage was ordinary. Not wonderful, maybe, but safe. Then one night he follows me down a dark reservoir road, runs my car through a guardrail, and leaves me under the water so he can collect my life insurance and start over with another woman.Instead of staying conveniently dead, I wake up in my grandmother's long-gone diner with Vesper Bloom, Senior Claims Adjuster for the Afterlife Assurance Bureau, and Grimm, her enormous spectral dog. Apparently, deliberately stealing someone's life creates a debt. Isaac owes me, and Vesper can explain the terms, but she can't collect for me.Back in the living world, I discover I'm not exactly powerless. The electronics pieces of my old life answer when I reach for them. Lamps turn on. Televisions misbehave. Thermostats develop attitudes. Isaac thinks the wiring in our old house is failing until the failures become a little too personal to explain away.Haunting my murderer is satisfying. Watching my mother grieve a daughter everyone believes died in an accident isn't. Before I decide what to do with the life Isaac owes me, I need her to know the truth. I need someone living to prove Isaac killed me, because apparently spectral testimony has some admissibility issues.Then Isaac's girlfriend learns where their new life really came from and has a chance to walk away clean. She doesn't, and the debt grows.HE BURIED ME FIRST is a darkly funny supernatural revenge novel about murder, betrayal, unfinished business, an extremely inconvenient afterlife, and one enormous spectral dog who has never encountered a snack he didn't consider rightfully his.