I received a free copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review. This is a book of two short stories about Dave Callahan, a popular private investigator that specializes in the paranormal. The first story is named for the title of the book, Phantom Lover. In this story, an aristocratic woman hires Dave to investigate her husband who is having an affair with an ectoplasm. It starts off pretty good, but even for a short story, it was way too short. This story had so much potential to be awesome, I really don't understand why it was brief and then it ended extremely anticlimactic.

The second story, Accidental Lazarus, was by far exceedingly better. In this case, a prominent thug, "Stupid Joe", has been murdered at a restaurant he frequents. He arrives at Dave Callahan's apartment, with a giant hole in his chest, requesting his assistance in finding his murderer so that he can exact revenge. In return, he says he won't whack Callahan and promises to go back to the morgue. This was a humorous adventure as Callahan searches for a killer and Joe decides to start living, which puts him in quite a few hysterical situations. All in all this book was a quick fun read, but because of the lack of content in the first story, I can only give it four stars.
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