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Lindsay Frost used to be a homicide detective, until she was murdered. Her sister Kate stepped into Lindsay's shoes, even working with the same partner, and solved Lindsay's murder. What makes this even more unusual is that Kate can still see and hear Lindsay. Kate is on vacation with her friends, an annual skiing trip to the mountains. One friend doesn't turn up. This isn't initially a matter for concern - she's been invited before and not shown up. This time, she does eventually appear . . . in pieces in Kate's car. This case has just become personal for both Kate and Lindsay. Lindsay operates under some interesting constraints. Nobody can see or hear her except Kate. She can't move anything in the "real" world. People in the "next" world look just as they did when they died. Lindsay, for example, has clothes on because she was dressed when she died. And she's in one piece, because she wasn't dismembered. The dead tend to return to the place where they died; they have a talisman connected in some way to their life. All of these bits of information Lindsay gleaned slowly, and with some help from people she met after she died. These rules play a role, major or minor, in Lindsay's ability to help Kate. Dean's creation of an afterlife is, for the most part, believable once one makes that first leap of faith. It will be interesting to see how the rules Dean has given Lindsay come back to bite her (Dean or Lindsay) in the butt in future books. The critical clue for Kate comes from Lindsay in a manner that really bends one rule; this is a major flaw in an otherwise acceptable plot. The relationship between Kate and Lindsay is very well done. They have all the normal sibling issues, positive and negative. They both change as a result of events in SHIELD OF DUTY; one would think that being dead would make change unlikely. Apparently not. Readers with a penchant for the supernatural will find the Frost Sisters worth reading about.
Reviewed by P.J. Coldren, December 2009
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