A delightful sequel to “Ghost in the Park”, which I found even more enjoyable than the first book. Bryce Campbell is a British ex-pat and a respected and well-liked professor at the University of Louisiana. He is also clairaudient, which means that he hears the voices of dead people in his head. When Detective Chase, his best friend, is baffled by a case of young children being kidnapped, Bryce's ghostly friends join the investigation.As in the previous book, the friendship between the young detective and the older professor is an entertaining driving theme, providing moments of comic relief and a curious sense of alternate family. I enjoy their spats and verbal sparring and the deep mutual trust they have developed. This series seems to be shaping up in the tradition of the reluctant amateur sleuth, who is involved in a different case each time and joins forces with the regular police and the “irregular” army of ghosts or recently dead people. The main ghost in this instalment is a more wistful one and has a more limited role than previously. The crime is less gruesome but no less harrowing as it involves a number of kidnapped children.The writing is confident and captivating. The story is narrated by Bryce in the first person, and I have mentioned before that the author does a terrific job of capturing the voice of an Englishman transplanted in the US but still attached to his tea drinking and pub culture. I love the strong characterization, which to me adds so much to an interesting and very original plot.