The Ghost and the Dead Deb (Haunted Bookshop Mystery)
by Alice Kimberly
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Author: Alice KimberlyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-06
ISBN: 0425199444
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Berkley
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Summary: 5 Stars
Penelope Thornton-McClure is a widowed mother of one who took her husband's life insurance and bought a half interest in a run down and failing bookshop owned by her aunt. She fixes the old place up and adds a community events room where among other things she plans to host author appearances. Unfortunately for Pen the first author who comes to her store drops dead right there on the stage and she is one of the chief suspects. Fortunately for Pen her bookshop is haunted by 1940s PI Jack Shepard who was killed in that very building many years ago and with his help Pen clears her name.
In this second entry to the series Pen has another big name author appearing at the shop and the place is packed. Angel Stark has written a tell-all book about her life as part of the moneyed elite that includes the lurid details of an unsolved murder that took the life of the young queen of the spoiled Newport set. Needless to say the old money families mentioned in the book aren't at all happy and several of them show up at the reading, some with confrontation on their minds.
As you would expect it isn't long before dead bodies start showing up and although Pen isn't a suspect this time the nephew of a close friend is and Pen once again enlists Jack's help to solve the crime. An interesting twist to this story is the fact that her late husband's snooty family is involved in this case up to their eyeballs and that causes an already tense situation with the in laws to flare up into a near all out war.
As with the first book in the series this one is very well written and the characters, while not being the wacky denizens often inhabiting the pages of this genre are still an interesting lot and are very believable. Pen has already learned a lot from Jack and is becoming quite the detective in her own right but she still leans on Jack when the times get tough. The elements of noir fiction that Jack brings to the story are also extremely enjoyable and somehow this author makes this blend work and work well. She even manages to throw in a little romance to liven up the plot at times.
So far I have been very pleased with this series that I accidentally stumbled over one day and I look forward to reading the further adventures of the bookstore lady and the dead PI.
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Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure wants her resident sleuth-ghost, Jack, to stop haunting her customers. But when a pretty author is murdered, Jack can't rest in peace.Horror Books
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