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The Forever Summer

The Forever Summer, August 2007
by Suzanne Macpherson

Avon
Featuring: Lucas Griffin; Emily Ruth Griffin; Lila Abbott
368 pages
ISBN: 0061161268
EAN: 9780061161261
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"A pleasant and light romantic mystery."

Fresh Fiction Review

The Forever Summer
Suzanne Macpherson

Reviewed by Paula Myers
Posted July 20, 2007

Romance | Romance Paranormal | Contemporary

Liz Abbott is content with her life in the small town of Port Gamble. She's built a life for herself and her daughter in the small seaside town. She works at the local grocery store and has a unique talent for communicating with the dead. The town's most recent dead person, however, is proving as difficult in death as she did in life. Emily Ruth Griffin dropped dead in the produce aisle after tasting Liz's cheese whiz on crackers. Now she's back and haunting everyone, leaving cryptic clues to her murder.

The main suspect in Emily Ruth's murder is her ex-husband, Lucas Griffin. When he and Liz begin seeing one another, she's also at the top of the suspect list. Emily Ruth continues to leave clues to her demise, and Liz must figure them out and identify the real murderer before she's next on the killer's hit list, or she and Lucas end up in jail, charged with a crime neither committed!

THE FOREVER SUMMER by Suzanne Macpherson is a pleasant romantic who-done-it that's a bit light on both mystery and romance. Liz is tortured by her past as a teenaged parent and unwilling to trust the "summer people," of which Lucas is one. Lucas has been burned by love once, by the suitably unsympathetic Emily Ruth, and not enthusiastic about hooking up with another woman, yet he and Liz do manage to connect. It was obvious to me from the beginning who the killer was, and the clues left by Emily Ruth simply reinforced my belief and left me wondering why Liz was being so dense. There was a nice twist thrown in at the end, but overall I missed the wow-factor I've enjoyed in other books by Ms. Macpherson.

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SUMMARY

The Awful Truth about Emily Ruth

Lucas Griffin has come to Port Gamble for one purpose. To get the Griffin family summer home out of the clutches of his evil ex-wife, Emily Ruth Griffin.

But before he can blink twice, she drops dead in the local grocery market. Now he's stuck with her ghost, and her little dog, too.

Not-So Dearly Departed

Lila Abbott has had her fill of rich summer people who crowd Port Gamble every year. Townie girls and summer boys just don't mix, and she's learned that the hard way.

But Lucas Griffin has a ghost problem that only Lila can solve, and she finds herself knee-deep in Cheez Whiz while Lucas and the deceased Emily Ruth duke it out.

Working together to clear his name and get rid of their pesky poltergeist, Lucas and Lila find themselves falling in love. Maybe this will finally be the FOREVER summer for Lila Abbott.


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