Review: "Another One Bites the Dust" by Chris Marie Green (Jensen Murphy, Ghost for Hire #2)


Jensen Murphy knows what it's like to have your life cut short and while she's still seeking justice for her untimely death decades ago, she wants to be able to help others, whether a fellow ghost or someone still alive and kicking, seeking something similar in their lives. She's being aided by Amanda Lee Minter, the psychic who helped pull her out of a thirty-year-old time loop, and a few friendly ghosts in Boo World. 

Aside from her ghost sleuthing, Jensen is keeping tabs on Gavin and Wendy Edgett, the siblings whose lives were altered forever after Jensen and her team entered their world. She's trying to make amends for what happened, plus she's wary of the dark spirit that Amanda Lee allowed entry to during a fake seance. The siblings have ignored her but it appears Gavin's been doing his own research on Jensen and her life.

When a new case in the form of a young woman asking Jensen and Amanda Lee check out the boyfriend of her best friend and confirm her fears of his violent tendencies, they're once again off and running. But they're up against more than a volatile boyfriend and with the odds stacked up against them, Jensen will have to decide how far she's willing to go to and what she's ready to give up in order to save everyone else.

Another One Bites the Dust is the second book in the Jensen Murphy, Ghost for Hire series by author Chris Marie Green and picks up a few weeks after the events in the first book. Both Jensen and Amanda Lee agree to help Heidi Schmidt who's afraid her best friend Nichelle Shaw is in danger of being seriously hurt by her live-in boyfriend Tim Knudson. While the case appears simple enough in the beginning, it evolves into something nightmarish the more time they observe Tim and enter his thoughts and dreams.

Jensen is also still concerned by the dark spirit that's now lingering around, believing that it belongs to the late father of Gavin and Wendy Edgett. While Wendy begins to open herself up to Jensen, Gavin is still very apprehensive and is torn between seeing Jensen as a beautiful spirit and envisioning her as a vengeful she-bitch. Wendy's ability to see and communicate with ghosts makes her an asset, even if it will be limited to gathering more information on fake Dean, the entity that has a personal and special interest in Jensen.

It doesn't help that Gavin and Jensen appear to now have an inexplicable connection and that she's developed a supernatural crush on him, but now she learns he's been in contact with Jensen's best friend Suze and that there may be an attraction brewing between the two of them, much to the amusement of fake Dean, who makes Jensen wants to both push him away and pull him closer. He wants her to be his but Jensen is holding off, not ready to be one of his "stars", but still becoming increasingly attracted to him.

This was a great sequel to Only the Good Die Young and one that I enjoyed immensely. More light is shone on Jensen's murder and while Jensen is still very much reliant on Amanda Lee for a lot of things, she's also beginning to see herself as becoming an independent figure in the future. There's a strange love square of sorts forming: fake Dean + Jensen + Gavin + Suze. The revelation regarding the dark spirit definitely amps things up for the third book. Another One Bites the Dust took it up a notch and I'm giving it 4.5 stars. ♥

Date Read: 06 April 2015

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