Instead we get perfectly placed details that let you almost smell the jasmine and feel the brush of moss from a live oak tree. The setting is lush and vibrant: deep South, but without an over-reliance on folksy dialogue or stereotypes to put the frame across. More brain than brawn, she has an interest career as a cemetery restorer, one that seems like a weird choice for someone so vulnerable to the dead. First and foremost we get a great strong heroine who is NOT a cliche in the urban fantasy-mold of wise-cracking, ass-kicking Buffy clones. MY TAKE: Between the interesting (if not completely fleshed out) worldbuilding of Amelia’s ghost-sensing abilities, the brutal murders that add a sense of urgency to the unfolding plot, and the catnip that is forbidden attraction, there are a lot of things to love about The Restorer. Can she help him solve the murder without losing her own life? Devlin, the detective investigating the crime, would be right up Amelia’s alley if not for the ghost of his wife and child that follow him around town. This and other rules she learned from her father have kept her safe, until she stumbles upon a dead body of the fresh variety in the Charleston cemetery she has been hired to restore. She also shares with him the ability to see ghosts, and this ability has forced her to follow strict rules, the most important of which is that you don’t ever look at the ghosts or acknowledge them in any way, or you will never be free of them. But it appears she inherited more than a professional aptitude from her father.
She learned the trade from her father, and grew up watching him work as a caretaker at a local cemetery. Working in and around her home base of Charleston, she has built up a reputation as an expert in meticulous restorations of historic burial places. THE BOOK: Amelia Gray is a young woman with an unusual job: she restores cemeteries for a living.
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