How To Be Death – Amber Benson

Amber Benson returns for the fourth installment of her Calliope Reaper-Jones series.  This one breaks the mold a bit, as it does not feature someone trying to kill Calliope in order to stop her from taking over Death Inc, but instead is more of a murder mystery, where our heroine works with an investigator to figure out who stole the handbook to her new job and, in the process, murdered Daniel’s date in her room.

The curveball that Benson throws in this penultimate book in the series gave this book a much different feel than the earlier installments.  The new head of Death Inc spends much of the book investigating the murders taking place around her.  Benson also sets up the characters for the next book, set the following day, if the end of this one is any indication.

The last book in the series came out earlier this year.  I’ll need to pick it up at some point.