After loving "Dead Girls Are Easy", I eagerly awaited this follow up. Here Nicki meets her twin sister Kelly for the first time. Kelly is Nicki's boyfriend Joe's ex-wife, so relations are tense for the sisters from the get-go. In this story, Nicki meets not only her twin sister, but the birth mother who gave them all up and some other family members. Things aren't what they seem, and the ghosts show up routinely. Another new character makes an appearance and threatens to take away everything Nicki ever held dear. It also make her "do unto others" mentally reach shaky ground. The mysteries are a good one, the ghostly spirits enjoyable, even the rotten ones. The writing here is wonderful and the book unravels at a good pace. The follow through may actually have been more entertaining than the first volume. I am taking off one star because of an odd plot twist, that really didn't work for me at the end. Can't say more without giving something away. But still this was a fabulous book and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone. ( )

I'm waffling between 3.5 and 4 stars for "A Match Made in Hell" by Teri Garey. It started with a whimper, got better, slowed down again, then ended with a bang. How in the heck do I rate that? I would also recommend reading the first book "Dead Girls Are Easy" before you start in on this one. You don't have to (of course), but I don't think I would have enjoyed this one as much without the back story provided in the earlier novel.

Nicki has some serious issues to deal with. As if coming back from the dead and being able to see dead people wasn't enough! Now she has a twin sister she never knew about (who is her current lover's not quite ex-wife), a dead mother giving her cryptic warnings, a haunted house inheritance, and oh...did I forget to mention one of her relatives apparently made a deal with the Devil? And now he seems to think Nicki would be perfect for him?

While I did enjoy the story, I wish the author would step more firmly into either the humor/campy side or the emotional/relationship side, because both of them in one story was very distracting for me. I'm pulling for the humor side (no surprise there), and I'll be looking for the next one in this series to try and get a better idea of where the author's going.

If you liked "Dead Girls Are Easy", then grab "A Match Made In Hell". Watching Nicki try to cope with everything happening to her is enough to keep you reading. ( )