Grave Expectations: A Mother-and-Me Mystery

When Marabella Vinegars favorite neighbor Sam Lipschitz dies everyone including the NYPD thinks it was natural causes. After all Sam was pushing eighty with a heart condition. But Marabella knows Sams heart problem was mild and under control with medication--and shes already acquainted with Sams greedy relatives--so she doesnt think there was anything natural about it. Neither does her sleuthing sidekick her mother-the-ghost-detective who has recently dropped back into Marabellas life happy to interfere again. Not only that but Rose another elderly neighbor tells Marabella she overheard Sam arguing with someone in his apartment about money and was threatening to change his will. Rose caught a shadowy glimpse of the person fleeing Sams apartment and is worried the person saw her. The next day Marabella finds Rose severely injured on the floor of the buildings laundry room saying she was pushed. Marabella cant convince her old nemesis NYPD Detective now Lieutenant Rivera that people are being murdered. So she vows to track the killer down with her mothers help by investigating the heirs to Sams considerable estate. Can she and her mother find the killer and get enough evidence to convince Rivera? Or is Marabella doomed to become the next victim?