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Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers' Favorite
In Sean Esson’s The Flour Girl, Frankie Jones wakes up in an alley with searing pain, a corpse for company, and no memories. An unblinking, smirking stranger called Salvius delivers the verdict: Frankie is dead, and purgatory is not a place for mindless waiting. Salvius explains that he has something he needs to do first before he can move on to Judgment. Frankie is tethered to Amelia Fournier, a young baker whose spirit haunts Forest Glen Cemetery after she is murdered. Neither spirit can move on until the killer is found and justice served. Frankie learns to navigate his new existence, phasing through walls, floating, and possessing the living. He becomes an ally with detectives Jason Phillips and Royce Sheffield, whom he feeds with leads while racing against the clock before time corrupts their spirits. The evidence continues to point closer to home, and the revelations that follow are stunning.
Sean Esson constructs a cleverly grounded dual mystery following two murders and Frankie's past through autopsy reports, murder boards, and a confession extracted inside a SWAT-surrounded warehouse. The plot rewards readers' attention, and the title itself is a clue, evoking the white powder at Frankie's crime scene and Amelia’s flour-dusted bakery photo. The afterlife is an intelligently imagined world with its unique, sometimes quirky rules, where possession works once per host without permission. The Flour Girl is a propulsive mystery that examines redemption and identity. While Frankie struggles with an identity crisis, the comforting thought from Jason is that it’s “never too late for someone to do good.” You will love the humor. I cried, I laughed, and I rooted for the characters that felt familiar in a place I have never been.
