If bed-and-breakfast owners Melanie and Liza, along with their laughing ghost tenant, canโt find a real estate developerโs killer, their own estate will end up with their next of kin.
The Merry Ghost Inn is well and truly open for business. Melanie West, her grandmother, Liza, and their beloved sheepdog/wolfhound mix, Max, are rapidly getting the hang of running their charming bed-and-breakfast inn on the rocky Oregon coast. Not that business goes without a hitch―when your hostelry boasts its own laughing resident ghost, youโd better be expect the out-of-the-ordinary. But Melanie and Liza take it all in strideโฆuntil a hotshot real estate developer arrives in Sullyโs Landing, touting his plans to build a tacky amusement arcade smack dab in the middle of the tasteful cliff-side town.
No one in Sullyโs Landing can stand the gaudy developer, but itโs still a shock when he ends up murdered. Itโs even more shocking when Lizaโs friend, Doug, emerges as the chief suspect. Melanie and Liza put on their sleuthing caps yet again and set out to clear Dougโs name. They nearly check into accommodations six feet under when, en route to the crime scene, their brakes give out and they narrowly miss plunging over the cliffs to the beach below. Meanwhile, the merry ghost who haunts the inn tries to help by dropping clues for Melanie to find, but her mind is otherwise preoccupied when the killer kidnaps Liza and holds her prisoner.
Now, itโs up to Melanie to piece together the ghostโs clues, save her mother, exonerate her friend, keep her guests happy, and make sure Max gets his walkies in Kate Kingsburyโs third mirthful Merry Ghost Inn mystery, Be Our Ghost.
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