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.
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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