"They've been stuck In the Loretta Grey Memorial Library - formally the Loretta Grey Memorial Library - for the past seven to eight decades...and now they want to be free.

When Sally O'Brian visits the library, the two ghosts overhear her conversation and realize that she might be their salvation. Sally O'Brian, ex-school teacher, untimely widow, and near-death survivor can speak to the dead.

But this ability has come with a cost.Sally O'Brian has to find a way to get the dead to pass on to their eternal resting place. But to do that, she has to solve two murders, both of which happened eighty years earlier. Okay, that would be difficult, but how hard could it actually be?

"First," drawled Matt, her dead husband, "you might have to get them to be nice to each other."