When Sadie Novak's brother committed suicide five years ago, she learned that the police do not clean up crime scenes. She was forced to scrub her brother's brains off the bathroom tile herself. So Sadie started her own company, specializing in cleaning up after the dead, to fill the niche. To complicate matters, she soon realizes she can see ghosts. Now she's been hired to clean up after a husband/wife murder-suicide. The wife's ghost is present but weirdly cannot hear or speak to her. Sadie's convinced that there's more to the story but the police have no reason to believe her - and now someone is trying to silence her permanently.

The wonderful promise of the setup, that Sadie will solve the crime using ghost interviews, the deceased's belongings and her own brains is undermined by her stumbling across key pieces of evidence. There's a rule of thumb that says you only get one unlikely coincidence per story because your reader will not suspend their disbelief a second time. That applies here; my suspension snapped on multiple occasions.

The concept was interesting and the murder mystery entertaining, but the narrative was too spotty and the protagonist too irresponsible for me to get into this book. I give Remains of the Dead a D+. See full
review at What If Books Etc.