As a finale, this provides a very nice end-cap to the Rooks' series of cozy-ghost-hunter stories. Problems are solved, again, not through violence but through annoyance and sheer lower-middle-class bloody-mindedness.

As with the second installation in the series, this feels like one act of a three-act story — while the first book is a standalone, this one left me wishing more had happened. But then, isn't that always the way with good books