James Turner and the Spirit of Death

James Turner, an ordinary schoolboy of 12, beloved by his parents and bullied by a certain classmate, is murdered by an old rival of his family, a defeated former politician and a crook. He is whisked off into the ghost world Pergatoria, similar yet dissimilar to the our waken world. There, he befriends a girl named Mara and later learns of his murderer's passing. Desperate to return to the world of the living to be with his loving parents once again, James learns of the murderer's untimely demise and of one of his possessions; a certain spirit essence that would allow him (or any ghost) to return to the world of the living. But then he learns of his parents' tragic demise at the hands of this determined foe...