I've been on a real kick lately, reading lots of Heather Graham's Krewe of Hunters books. BTW - and sadly - I'm not related to Heather Graham. Heather writes romantic suspense and her Krewe books are great examples of the genre.
The Krewe of Hunters is a special unit of the FBI. It employs Special Agents with paranormal abilities. All of them can see and speak with ghosts. The ghosts help solve the crimes involved in the stories and they occasionally save one of the main characters. The background Krewe will repeat, a bit, in each book, but each focuses on a particular agent who finds love in the course of investigating a crime.
One of the mega-neat aspects of the series is that Heather sets the books in areas of cultural and historical interest. They're in places where one might expect to find interesting ghosts - like New Orleans, Salem, Boston, etc. This allows the author to paint a picture of various historical events, settings and local legends. Heather does a great job of showing instead of telling, and even when she (occasionally) has to venture into telling, she does it with enough style and interest to keep the reader focused.
If only there was a real FBI unit like the Krewe!
I love the books and highly recommend. They do make me wish I had the 'gift' of seeing the spirits. I'd love to speak with my parents, grandparents or late Father-in-Law, but it would also be amazing to get to chat with an ancestor from long ago about the Civil War era or the Revolutionary War period. Picking up one of Heather's Krewe books is the next best thing.
Happy reading!!