Half Resurrection Blues is the first book in the new urban fantasy series Bone Street Rumba. It is a different take on urban fantasy then what I'm used to add it's focused on ghosts and folks that are 'inbetween' being a ghost and living. The main character Carlos is just such an inbetweener, unable to remember anything about his previous life, not even his real name. He died and was brought back to a state of kind of half life. Currently he works for the New York Council of the dead pretty much as an executioner. Things pick start in the book one new years eve when he's tasked with killing someone who just so happens to be just like him, an inbetweener. 
 There were: 
 Ghosts, a cool very large motherly type house ghost, ngks (try to pronounce that I dare you), inbetweeners (folks who'd died but weren't quite dead), an undead council and Carlos who develops an instant hardcore crush/lust for the sister, Sasha, of the guy he kills at the beginning of the book. Ultimately, this series starter has a lot of potential and a very unique character voice for Carlos. Unfortunately I had a hard time really connecting with him. I wasn't particularly fond of his personality (not that he was a bad guy) but I just wasn't pulled in by him either. The ancillary characters were interesting as well but none of them particularly stood out to me development wise, infact they all sort of blended together and that left me overall kind of disinterested in the story and world. I think that folks looking for an urban fantasy featuring ghosts should definitely give this one a try because I've had a few other friends who've read it and seriously enjoyed it. 
 An interesting thing to note is that the author himself narrates the audio version of the book which for some I think will help add a certain appeal to that version of the book.