E.J. Cooperman serves readers a cocktail of haunted humor
and a killer mystery in this latest addition to The Haunted
Guesthouse Mystery series. Alison Kerby is renovating her
Victorian home, which comes with two resident ghosts - Maxie
Malone and Paul Harrison. Both ghosts were murdered in the
home, which is now a bed and breakfast. But her ghosts don't
stop people from staying in Alison's bed and breakfast. In
fact, Maxie and Paul's crossing over "lay over" has made
Alison's bed and breakfast all the rage among the elderly
community who flock to Alison's home for a chance at a
ghostly encounter.
Alison's busy bed and breakfast is in danger when the star
attractions become too preoccupied to entertain Alison's
guests. Maxie is devastated to hear that her ex-husband has
been murdered. Paul decided he wants Alison to deliver an
engagement ring to the woman he intended to propose to
before his murder. If Alison doesn't help Maxie and Paul,
her dissatisfied Senior Plus Tours customers could put her
out of business.
Fortunately, for Paul and Maxine, Alison is not only a
successful businesswoman, but she also has a private
investigator license. Brushing off her PI skills, Alison
decides to jump right into her old profession in order to
help her ghostly friends. Except no one knows what happened
to Maxine's ex, Big Bob. Big Bob was a motorcycle rider and
when he was found dead, the police simply summed up the
murder to gang activity or a drug deal gone wrong. But as
Alison investigates Big Bob, finding that not only was he a
kind-hearted man, but he did not appear to have one single
enemy. Although Alison's PI skills are a bit rusty, she
begins to smell a rat when the police staunchly refuse to
look into the case.
Paul's ex, Julia Mackenzie, has just vanished without a
trace. Helping Paul find Julia might prove more difficult
than Alison bargained for. In order to find Julia, Alison
must sharpen her PI skills, turn up the charm, and if that
doesn't work, Alison is prepared to lie through her teeth to
get to the bottom of what happened to Julia. As if Alison
doesn't have enough to deal with, her ex-husband, who she
calls "the swine" has suspiciously resurfaced in her life,
and Alison must find a way to keep her "extra" guests and
the real reason her bed and breakfast is so popular from her
former husband.
I knew OLD HAUNTS was gold before I finished reading the
first page. This is one of those books which hooks readers
from page one. Not only is Alison's dry sense of humor and
hilarious commentary on other characters enough to give this
book ten stars, but even the ghosts and their former lives
are written to perfection. Readers can't help but sympathize
and laugh as Alison attempts to juggle Maxie and Paul's
missing persons with her demanding elderly customers, who
are eager for an encounter with the supernatural.
The ghosts haunting Alison Kerby's Jersey Shore guesthouse
are sad. Maxie wants to know who murdered her ex-husband,
and Paul pines for his still-living almost-fiancee. The only
one who isn't missing her ex is Alison-because The Swine
just arrived on her doorstep...
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