I Called Her Final Curtain: 3

She used my own theater to kill me. Now I'm calling her final curtain.My husband helped murder me. He just wasn't the one who got his hands dirty. I spent my career keeping people alive backstage at the Odeon. I knew every cable, every load limit, every lockout procedure, and every piece of machinery hanging over that stage. When a rig comes down on top of me, I know one thing before I die. It wasn't an accident.I wake beneath a ghost light in the black-box theater where I first fell in love with the work, facing Vesper Bloom, Senior Claims Adjuster for the Afterlife Assurance Bureau. Apparently, murder creates a debt, and the people responsible for mine owe me the life they stole.My husband, Jud, helped make my death possible. He provided access to the grid, covered what happened, and signed the paperwork blaming me for my own fatal mistake, but Jud didn't sabotage the rig himself, which means someone else put their hands on my equipment and killed me.Back at the Odeon, I discover death comes with a few occupational perks. Lights dim when I want them to. Microphones wake up in empty rooms. The ghost light does as I direct. Even the fly system seems to remember who spent twenty years running it. While Jud slowly comes apart under the pressure, one person remains perfectly calm. Sonya Monahan, the managing director I mentored, the woman I taught to work safely in my theater, and the woman sleeping with my husband.I came back to prove I didn't die because I got careless. I need my brother to know the truth, and I need the people who trusted me backstage to know I never endangered them. After that, I have a choice to make, because the Bureau doesn't require me to collect the life I'm owed.It only gives me the right, and once I learn whose hands brought that rig down on me, I know exactly where I want to call her final curtain.I CALLED HER FINAL CURTAIN is a darkly funny supernatural revenge novel about murder, betrayal, unfinished business, backstage ghosts, and one enormous spectral dog with absolutely no respect for theater snacks.