Looking to make the most of his spirit medium partner’s talents, a “ghost-phobic” private eye turns his small detective agency into a center for mortal contact with the nether realm focused on handling a myriad of supernatural cases.

Private eye Adam Hsieh, harassed by the spirit of his former tenant, a woman who had hung herself in her rented room, turns to gifted spirit-medium Wen Hsiao-Ching to help negotiate a way for both to coexist in peace. Ching’s rounding success in that endeavor leads to their mutual business partnership in Spiritspeaker Studio, with Ching its Chief Investigator and Adam her assistant. The studio takes on all comers, providing various and sundry services including but not limited to finding long-lost pets.

The three-volume Spiritspeaker Studio series leads readers through the litany of oddball cases taken on by Ching and Adam. In the first volume, the duo investigate a malicious spirit haunting a mansion, a cryptic closet that bewitches its owners, a female ghost who roams the internet, a child spirit trapped in a cloth doll, and more. More than becalmed, these once-restless spirits are unshackled, after which they continue helping the investigators break important new cases and scare the pants off mortal miscreants. Seemingly inexplicable, however, is their continuous failure to locate a missing dog. “Where is that dog?…” is thus an intriguing enigma that “dogs” the pair throughout the series.

In this series, author Teensy weaves contemporary social issues into enduring urban legends and nativist myths. The bright, lively writing style, soulful protagonists, and array of uniquely talented ghosts and ghoulies combine to give readers a warmly satisfying sense of justice and closure.