Hindered by a fight with her friend Dub and a series of mysterious fires, eleven-year-old Allie investigates the fire seventeen years earlier which claimed the lives of the husband and infant son of a school cafeteria worker, as well as the handsome young man whose ghost asks Allie for help.

Echo Bodine sees dead people. And, in the course of her thirty year ghostbusting career, she has escorted countless souls of the dearly departed from bordellos, bars, and boardinghouses in which they have overstayed their welcome. "Ghosts, " Echo Bodine once said, " are like everyone else, except they are dead." This always entertaining, and often scary, collection of true stories bears out this point. The dead are a lot like you or me - or the psychopath...