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First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1)

Darynda Jones

Start date: August 1, 2011

Finish date: August 31, 2011

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Feb 12, 2012 Nairabell rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: urban-fantasy, 5-star, read-in-2012

Charley Davidson is a private investigator with a difference, she just happens to be the grim reaper as well. This gives her an edge over the competition and means she frequently assists her uncle on his police cases. She's been helping the departed cross over since she was five so a dead lawyer showing up in her bedroom is annoyingly routine. Until Charley realises he and the firm's other two senior partners were all killed in the same day and suddenly she's working on the biggest case of the y ...more

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Sep 18, 2012 Paula Phillips rated it it was amazing

Meet Charley Davidson, if you love movies like Ghost Whisperer -then this is the series for you and Charley is the gal for you. Charley is what is known as a Grim Reaper , her job is to cross over those souls that have been earth bound . Though Charley's life isn't easy as she also works as a Private Investigator and sees the dead. On the police force as a consultant , she gets flak from one of the officers Garrett who thinks the whole seeing dead people thing is a get-up, if only that was the c ...more

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Mar 27, 2011 Jess rated it really liked it

Shelves: reviewed, 2013

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What I Thought: Charley has been cursed since birth. She can see the dead, and even worse than that she can help them cross over. She is the Grim Reaper, much to her dismay. However, it is something she has learned to live with and something that she has used for good. Be it by helping her father and her uncle solve murder cases, or by using the knowledge she has to keep herself out of trouble (some what) and operating her PI Business.

As a character Char ...more

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Jan 11, 2013 Sonya rated it really liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy, 2013

Quick , fun read. I liked the characters and I liked Charley's "occupation". I've passed on this book several times now, because I thought I didn't want to read about a reaper, actually The Grim Reaper, to be exact. I usually shy away from books where a main part of the plot involves dead people.

However, this worked, and I'm on to the next.
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Jan 16, 2013 Morgan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal, ghosts, fiction, chick-porn, five-star-reads

4.5 - 5

Going with the full five, because of my irritation level that I don't have the others right now. (I have book four and not two and three from the library because of the way the holds arrived.)

There was a moment at the beginning that I found it a little repetitive? But that quickly went away.

Loved the world building and that there is still so much left to learn (*fist shake again over still not having the books*), didn't see a couple things coming, and camman Reyes is hot.

May have eye ro ...more

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