
Do ghosts exist? Perhaps if they have a murderous secret to tell When newly-widowed Effie James is asked by her good friend a professor of psychology to help him with his latest book by participating in a local ghost-watching group she is at first rather reluctant But Corwin Fielding the attractive & erudite leader of the paranormal researchers has no objections to an 'impartial' observer on his team & the others in the group are a friendly & welcoming bunch So when the C-FITS are called in by a woman who is worried that her recently deceased mother might be haunting her old family home Effie quickly finds herself thrown in at the deep end & the eerie scent of lavender that mysteriously comes & goes in the old lady's bedroom is not the least of her worries For Effie slowly comes to suspect that the old lady might not have died of natural causes after all & that her killer might not take very kindly to the idea of a nosy group of strangers poking their noses in