- Her first customer wants her roots done. The woman in the mirror wants the appointment she booked twenty years ago.
When Lucy Bennett inherits her grandmother's shuttered hair salon on Market Lane, she pours her inheritance into reopening it. She expects difficult plumbing, empty appointment books and the occasional disastrous home bleach. She does not expect six dead customers waiting in the mirrors.
Everyone can hear them. Nobody can touch them. And Mavis, still in her rollers, is adamant that being dead is no excuse for keeping her waiting.
Between a relentless gossip, a former councillor with suspiciously black hair and a bride whose wedding never happened, Lucy has more opinions than chairs. Keeping her living customers happy is difficult enough without the dead offering unsolicited advice on their roots.
But beneath the bickering lies a fire that killed six people and left an entire street struggling to recover. As the ghosts begin sharing what they remember, Lucy follows their accounts into old letters, forgotten records and conversations the living would rather avoid. Someone's version of that night may be about to unravel.
With a salon to keep afloat and six people who have waited far too long to be heard, Lucy must find out what happened on Market Lane-and work out how to offer a fresh start to customers who cannot leave.
The Salon of Unfinished Business is a warm, funny supernatural mystery about friendship, grief and the unexpected company we keep. Some customers have unfinished business. One just wants her perm.