The surest way to lift an author’s spirit (can’t resist) is to receive an e-mail
from a Hollywood producer inquiring if the rights are available to the Bailey
Ruth Raeburn series. Yes, indeed they are. And Bailey Ruth’s new adventure, GHOST TIMES TWO, is a love
story and a mystery that would make a GREAT movie.
As is often the case with Hollywood queries, nothing has come of it to date, but
I’ve had great fun picking out a superb cast and I want to invite readers to
offer their choices.
In GHOST TIMES TWO,
Bailey Ruth returns to earth to encourage Jimmy Taylor, an engaging fun
madly-in-love ghost, to climb the Golden Stairs to Heaven. The object of Jimmy’s
affections is Megan Wynn, a young lawyer. She is beginning to recover from his
untimely death in a kayak accident in the rapids. A fellow lawyer Blaine Smith
would like for her to join his law firm and be his partner in both law and love.
Jimmy is doing his best to thwart the romance. Megan quarrels with a partner in
her present firm who blocks her plan to leave. When Megan is found at the scene
of his murder, Bailey Ruth and Jimmy go into overdrive to save her from arrest.
Jimmy truly loves Megan and will go to any length to save her, even if she ends
up in Blaine’s embrace.
Here, in case Hollywood is listening, is my dream cast of characters:
- Bailey Ruth - Debra Messing
- Wiggins – Ryan Kwanten
- Jimmy Taylor - Ansel Elgort
- Megan Wynn - Kaitlynn Dever
- Blaine Smith - John Francis Daley
- Doug Graham - Michael Shannon
- Sam Cobb – Joaquin Phoenix
There is also a bevy of sharply defined women who work in the law offices of
Layton and Graham. Each one has a reason to wish Graham dead.
The book goes on sale October 2. Movie minded readers are invited to submit
their choices for the cast to my website It will be fun to report the variety of
actors and actresses who fit the bill in the eyes of readers. And perhaps a
concentration of thought waves wending to Hollywood might stir action. You know,
lights, action, camera!
In my dreams . . .
Carolyn Hart is the author of 58 novels. She writes two series. The Death on
Demand series is set on a South Carolina sea island in a mystery bookstore and
features Annie and Max Darling. Lively energetic ghostly sleuth Bailey Ruth
Raeburn returns to earth to help people in trouble. Sometimes you see her,
sometimes you don’t.
Hart's books have won the Agatha three times for
Best Mystery Novel and been nominated nine times. Hart was named a Grand Master
by Mystery Writers of America. She is a past president of Sisters in Crime and
lives in Oklahoma City, OK, with her husband Phil.
Bailey Ruth Ghost
#7
Carolyn Hart—New York Times bestselling author of Ghost to the
Rescue—returns with a new Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel in which one woman
shatters the glass ceiling...with a little help from beyond.
Bailey Ruth Raeburn’s latest mission is to guide the happy-go-lucky spirit of a
deceased young man named Jimmy to the next life. But Jimmy is determined to
watch over his still-living girlfriend, Megan, whom he wants to be happy even
without him—which is easier said than done.
As if being haunted by her late boyfriend wasn’t enough, Megan is dealing with
an arrogant, manipulative senior partner who threatens to fire Megan’s
vulnerable secretary if Megan accepts a partnership at another law firm. She’s
in an impossible bind.
Since Jimmy refuses to move on while Megan is being blackmailed, Bailey Ruth
agrees to help him. But after the partner turns up dead and Megan is found at
the crime scene, Bailey Ruth and Jimmy have to find a way to uncover a killer
before the love of Jimmy’s life is ordered to spend a lifetime behind bars...
Mystery Cozy [Berkley
Prime Crime, On Sale: October 4, 2016, Hardcover
/ e-Book, ISBN: 9780425283738 / eISBN: 9780698411531]
GIVEAWAY
Tell us what you think of the casting line up and one of you will win the
paperback copy of GHOST TO
THE RESCUE
Bailey Ruth Ghost
New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Hart’s ghostly gumshoe
Bailey Ruth Raeburn is frequently amusing…but this is the first time she’s been
a muse.
When you wish upon a star, you get…Bailey Ruth? You do if you’re a little
girl whose mom needs help and you touch the soft heart of Supervisor Wiggins at
Heaven’s Department of Good Intentions. Granted it’s not the usual task of an
emissary, but then again Bailey Ruth is not your usual emissary. So Wiggins
dispatches the spunky spirit to her old hometown of Adelaide, Oklahoma, to help
a single mother and struggling writer find some creative solutions to her
problems.
Deidre Davenport is just about broke, trying to support her two children, and
has her hopes pinned on getting a faculty job with the Goddard College English
department. Jay Knox, who is in charge of the writer’s conference she’s
participating in, will decide who gets the job, but he’s more interested in her
body than her body of work.
Not long after his advances are rejected, Knox turns up dead—and Deirdre’s
fingerprints are found on the murder weapon. Bailey Ruth knows Deirdre is
innocent, and that the professor’s lewd behavior is bound to have rubbed others
the wrong way. Now she must find out who really knocked off Knox...if Deirdre
and her family are ever going to have a happy ending.
Mystery Cozy [Berkley
Prime Crime, On Sale: October 4, 2016, Mass
Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint), ISBN: 9780425276570 / eISBN:
9780698170896]
I think Debra Messing would be amazing as Bailey Ruth! Good luck at getting your dream cast. I would love to have a copy of any or all of your books!
(Robin Wood 10:16pm October 17, 2016)
I love your cast and would think the movie would be great! I think Debra Messing would do great in that roll. I'm putting this book on my TBR list. I sounds like one I would lOVE to read!!!
(Bonnie Capuano 10:28pm October 18, 2016)
I'm not familiar with the entire cast, but it sounds great to me! The book sounds wonderful as well. Thanks for the chance to win a copy, and good luck to everyone!
(Kathleen Gardiner 2:21pm October 20, 2016)
It's been ages since I've gone to a movie, so I'll have to rely on your selection of a dream cast.
(Anna Speed 12:27pm October 24, 2016)
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