Waking Up Dead

Spooktacular!

Cadence Riley is having a heck of a bad day. She’s a detective or she was and goes out with her team to catch a very bad man and wakes up in a blank waiting room with a whole bunch of zonked out people in it. She learns out that she has died and is given a choice go on to whatever is next or stay and serve. She decides to stay and becomes a different kind of cop. She and her partner are tasked with making sure that the living don’t learn too much about the afterlife. Some is ok, too much must be avoided at all costs. So instead of maintaining the peace she’s now keeping the mystery. Her first case turns into a doozy. Simple at first look to give her a taste of what the job details Cadence and Snow her partner/trainer go to a haunted asylum. They are to make sure a group of ghost hunters don’t find anything too interesting. Complications arise when a short time later a different group try and summon something and release a dark creature into the world. Now Cadence and Snow are doing all the can to find a way to stop this creature because it’s not just the living at stake it’s the dead too.
What a spooky, fun read! A wonderfully crafted world bridging the living and the dead. A unique take on the afterlife and what choices we have after we pass on. A great mystery/ police procedural even if the cops are ghosts. Most of all an engaging and entertaining story that is full of the spectrum of emotions and with a character in Cadence that keeps you wanting more. I absolutely cannot wait to see what’s next for her and Snow!.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.