The story features the psychic Willow Brown who is a police officer from Virginia, that inherits a house from her aunt in her childhood hometown in Florida.
She has no desire to return to Florida or live in this house in spite of loving her aunt. Willow goes to deal with the unwanted inheritance leaving her marriage in trouble and not knowing what to do about that, She soon finds an old friend had been murdered and she can't resist investigating. I couldn't imagine any police department anywhere allowing this to happen...but it is a work of fiction. Her psychic abilities are helpful as is the spirit of her dead aunt, which is currently inhabiting a cat. I believe I once owned that cat, or she owned me:) The paranormal elements are imaginative and are well done fitting in with the town's quirkiness. I found the characters and their relationships to be lacking something. Willow comes across as immature and not very likeable. No real effort is made to engage the reader in the stated relationships. Williow's marital issue is a perfect example...Willow and Tim have unknown discord for unknown reasons; he simply appears and after "discussing a lot of things" she's instantly back in love. I think this is more than likely the reason I don't usually read cozies. ( )