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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

The Ghost and Mrs. McClure by Alice Kimberly

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Also by Alice Kimberly:

The Ghost And The Haunted Mansion, January 2009
Paperback / e-Book
The Ghost And The Femme Fatale, May 2008
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library, September 2006
Paperback / e-Book
The Ghost and the Dead Deb, September 2005
Paperback / e-Book
The Ghost and Mrs. McClure, February 2004
Paperback / e-Book

THE GHOST AND MRS. MCCLURE
By: Alice Kimberly

Haunted Bookshop #1
Berkley Prime Crime
February 2004
On Sale: February 1, 2004
Featuring: Penelope McClure
272 pages
ISBN: 0425194612
EAN: 9780425194614
Kindle: B001QWDRV0
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Mystery Woman Sleuth

The spirit is willing . . . to catch a killer.

Young widow Penelope McClure and her Aunt Sadie Thornton are making ends met by running their newly remodeled mystery bookshop, a quaint New England landmark, rumored to be haunted. Pen may not believe in ghosts, but she does believe in good publicityβ€”like nabbing Timothy Brennan for a book signing. But soon after the bestselling crime writer reveals a secret about the store's link to a 1940's murder, he keels over dead, right in the middle of the store's new Community Events space.

Who gives Mrs. McClure the first clue that it was murder? The bookstore's full-time ghost, a tough-talking, hard- boiled private detective, who was murdered on the very spot more than fifty years before. Is Jack Shepard a figment of Pen's overactive imagination? Or is the oddly likeable fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime? You can bet your everlasting life on it.

Haunted Bookshop

The Ghost and Mrs. McClure
THE GHOST AND MRS. MCCLURE
#1.0 β€’ February 2004
The Ghost and the Dead Deb
THE GHOST AND THE DEAD DEB
#2.0 β€’ September 2005
The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library
THE GHOST AND THE DEAD MAN'S LIBRARY
#3.0 β€’ September 2006
The Ghost And The Femme Fatale
THE GHOST AND THE FEMME FATALE
#4.0 β€’ May 2008
The Ghost And The Haunted Mansion
THE GHOST AND THE HAUNTED MANSION
#5.0 β€’ January 2009
The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller
THE GHOST AND THE BOGUS BESTSELLER
#6.0 β€’ October 2018
The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait
THE GHOST AND THE HAUNTED PORTRAIT
#7.0 β€’ May 2021
The Ghost and the Stolen Tears
THE GHOST AND THE STOLEN TEARS
#8.0 β€’ October 2022
The Ghost Goes to the Dogs
THE GHOST GOES TO THE DOGS
#9.0 β€’ May 2023