There were several things I liked about this book and nothing I really hated and it was a difficult decision between 2 and 3 stars but in the end, it just didn't work for me. 
 I started this as an audiobook and for the first time in my listening life, had to switch to a hard copy to finish. It was narrated by Lorelei King whose performance of Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series is wonderful. Her work on this book was very good but although she voices each character differently within a book, she brings the same set of voices to each book and I couldn't get past hearing character voices I associate with a whole other series. 
 Charlotte "Charley" Davidson was born a Reaper; she is a portal for souls to pass to heaven. Because of her ability to interact with the dead, she helps her uncle Bob with police work as well as working as a P.I. The story centers on two mysteries: the murder case her uncle brings her in on and her own efforts at unraveling the story behind a mysterious figure from her past. 
 The book has a lot of humor but part of what didn't work for me was that it just didn't mesh with my sense of humor. I laughed a few times but a lot of the "funny" remarks came across to me as one-liners that probably sounded better in the author's head that they did as part of the story-line. 
 I usually don't have an issue with suspension of disbelief while reading but Charley's level of involvement in an ongoing investigation and her investigative methods had me shaking my head in disbelief, in part because her world is built/defined as contemporary with no known paranormal elements. Charley's status as a reaper, initially, is known only to her so I felt the aspects of her "normal" life needed to work realistically and I didn't see that. 
 The idea behind the story is actually pretty clever, the writing is technically sound, and the finale took an interesting twist I wasn't expecting. I may pick up the next book by this author and I am sure a lot of people will really like it but it simply didn't click with me.