Rating:  4.5🌈

The Ghostly series by EM Leya is going strong as demonstrated by Ghostly Dilemma, the eighth book in this excellent paranormal law enforcement series.  With the romantic relationship between ME Lance and Det. Angus is happy and they’ve moved in together, along with their dog Haunt.  Frank, Angus’ partner has recently bought a home, and Lance’s older brother is leaving the military and coming back home. They’ve even gotten back Carrie (recovering from the hostage situation) and acquired a new receptionist. Things are going well. 

So it’s time to get back to work, small caseloads, different jobs, various storylines.  And by switching it up from a singular dramatic plot line to an almost typical workload for both the police department and medical examiner staff, Leya gives the readers a diverse range of cases and people’s stories and experiences that the characters and departments deal with.  

And the author is able to demonstrate once again how well it’s not the high drama that can make a heartbreaking impact but sometimes it’s life’s smallest and most quiet stories that hit the hardest.  Here not all the ghosts are victims, some are those who left life behind in natural causes or silent, peaceful moments. But, of course, not all.   Leya makes each ghost a vibrant personality, no matter how they left their lives behind.  We also see what happens to the people and lives they have lost.  That’s reality too. 

Each one a case of different lengths but each fascinating and of importance to the lives of those around Lance and Angus, a found family that continues to grow in numbers, both living and ghostly. 

I adore this series because it’s so different in its approach to the ghostly world, and the way the author tells the stories associated with the people around the main characters as well as the characters themselves.  

I’m highly excited to see what the next book will bring.  And definitely recommending this series and story.  Read these in the order they are written. 

What a treat they are!

Ghostly series:

• Ghostly Awakening #1
• Ghostly Findings #2
• Ghostly Envy #3
• Ghostly Claus #4 
• Ghostly Target #5 
• Ghostly Hostage #6
• Ghostly Death #7
• Ghostly Dilemma #8 
• Ghostly Bother #9 (coming soon)

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Blurb

Sometimes it’s the little cases.

Not every minute of being a detective is spent solving huge murder cases. Sometimes it’s the little ones that take up Detective Young’s life, like the seventy-year-old cold case that suddenly fell into his lap or figuring out if a death was suicide or murder.

Lance spends most of his time working cases that no one hears about. The unattended deaths of those not under a doctor’s care take up most of his time. Now that he can speak to ghosts, some of those cases are the most interesting. Work isn’t all that is keeping him busy—his brother’s girlfriend has shown up in need of his help, and he can’t refuse when she’d helped him so much in the past.

Life is never boring for Lance and Angus, and though work pulls them both in different directions, they always seem to meet up somewhere in the middle of things. Sometimes it feels like if murder and death didn’t bring them together, they’d never get time together at all.

• Publisher: E.L. Publishing (October 6, 2024)
• Publication date: October 6, 2024
• Language: English
• Print length: 234 pages