Suddenly a victim of her own remarkable gifts, Seffi Callard, the world's best known spiritual medium, has been forced to back away from the glamour and the glow of public adulation, becoming a paranoid recluse at her father's home in the Cotswolds. Who is stalking Seffi Callard—and from which side of the grave? Mean Spirit sees the return of the cast of characters established in The Cold Calling : Bobby Maiden, police detective and survivor of a near-death experience; ‘Holy’ Grayle Underhill, New Age writer originally from New York, now working for Marcus Bacton, irascible editor of a journal of the paranormal; and Cindy Mars-Lewis, who... well, once you've read The Cold Calling, you already know all about Cindy.