First published 2017
Greta comes home from another terrible day at her job to discover her own dead body waiting for her. Now a ghost wandering the streets of 1994 Seattle, the former theater editor refuses to accept that she died as just another suicide copying Kurt Cobain. She breaks every crime fiction convention while investigating her own murder. The cynical spirit haunts the city's buses and sidewalks, determined to prove someone killed her and clear her name. Seattle itself becomes her hunting ground as she searches for her killer. The city transforms around her, growing more self-absorbed while Greta remains trapped between life and death. Her investigation becomes both a murder mystery and a bitter commentary on a place learning to love itself too much. Greta's story mixes genuine scares with dark humor as she navigates her ghostly existence in the Emerald City.
Genres: fiction, mystery, crime, contemporary, ghost-stories, paranormal
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, ghost, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Seattle
Period: 1994
252 pages · Paperback · Trepidatio Pub
Content warnings: death, suicide