Thanks to the @kidlitexchange network for the review copy of this book - all opinions are my own.
Elizabeth Webster is a fairly average American teenager. She lives with her mother, stepfather, and younger stepbrother, loathes going to middle school, and wonders when she'll get to see her father again.
She resists all attempts to get her involved in anything that might draw attention to her, but when popular athlete Henry Harrison walks right up to her in the cafeteria and asks her to tutor him in math, all eyes are on her.
When she arrives at Henry's house, she discovers that he doesn't need help with math, he needs help with a ghost who is haunting him. The ghost asks Elizabeth to save her, and that sets Elizabeth, Henry, and their friend Natalie on the path to figure out what that means.
But the ghost's problems are competing with Elizabeth's desire to know more about her father. She decides to search through personal papers in her mother's home office and finds a letter of apology from her father to her mother, and with it, a business card that reads Webster & Son, Attorneys for the Damned.
She and Natalie go to address on the card and find that her grandfather is running a law firm right in the same town and has been waiting for her to come and take her place in the firm.
As Elizabeth, Henry, and Natalie dive deeper into the mystery of the murder of Beatrice Long, they discover that solving Beatrice's case leads them closer to finding Elizabeth's missing father.
This book has suspense, adventure, a bit of romance, and, if your middle grader loves the unearthly, it's got an abundance of that.
The ending leaves the reader with lots of unanswered questions, providing the perfect set up for a second book.
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