Title: The Death of the Party
Author: Etta Faire
Date: 2019
Quote: "My dead ex-husband was in a bad mood..."
That's what some readers will hate about this well crafted mystery. It's the opening of a series but it's a full-length murder mystery in its own right...but the detective works by "channelling" ghosts who witnessed murders, or were murdered, and lives with ghosts whose stories aren't mysterious. Dead people aren't at rest and they don't go to their judgment. Depending on your religious views this may be a reason not to have the book in your house.
If you don't mind seeing the fatal dinner party through the murder victim's eyes, this is a legitimate detective story where the mystery is solved by logic and observation. And a nice, not overly detailed, period feeling (though I did spot a "scam artist" where people in the 1930s said "con artist"). And a cheerfully snarky narrator.
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