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.