Cleo Coyle is absolutely my favorite cozy mystery writer and this novel
doesn't disappoint. Fans have waited about ten years for this next
addition to the Haunted
Bookshop mystery series. Earlier novels in the series were
written under pseudonym Alice Kimberly, but now Alice Alfonsi and her
husband Marc Cerasini are using their pseudonym Cleo Coyle to write
this latest one, THE GHOST AND THE
BOGUS BESTSELLER. They also write the Coffeehouse Mystery series under Cleo Coyle
and slipped in a little surprise for readers of both series. I loved it!
Penelope is back solving mysteries with her ghost crime fighter partner
Jack. A customer comes to get the hottest novel that has hit the
bookshelves and is spooked by what she saw on the new novel's back
cover. She leaves upset, leaving Penelope determined to find out why,
and to get the money for the book that she took with her during her
rushed exit. With two customers' deaths and other bizarre happenings
all surrounded by this bestseller, Penelope is left to find out what all the
uproar is about, along with the help from Jack, her gumshoe ghost who
haunts her bookshop. Will they get answers before it is too late?
Cleo Coyle wrote another amazing cozy mystery with THE GHOST AND THE BOGUS
BESTSELLER! This book was worth the ten-year wait because they
just seem to get better. As a fan of these authors, I would love to see
more interaction between the Coffeehouse Mystery series and the Haunted Bookshop series down the road. Either
way, I hope Coyle keeps the mysteries coming because I cannot wait for
the next adventure for Penelope and Jack!
Penelope Thornton-McClure and her bookshop's
ghost-in-residence Jack Shepard are back on a new case in
this delightful paranormal mystery from New York
Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle.
A big
bestseller leads to small town trouble.
Bookshop
owner Penelope Thornton-McClure didn't believe in ghosts,
until she was haunted by the hard-boiled spirit of 1940s
private investigator Jack Shepard. Now Jack is back on the
job, and Pen is eternally grateful...
After an
elegant new customer has a breakdown in her shop, Penelope
suspects there is something bogus behind the biggest
bestseller of the year. This popular potboiler is so hot
that folks in her tiny Rhode Island town are dying to read
it--literally. First one customer turns up dead, followed by
another mysterious fatality connected to the book, which Pen
discovers is more than just fiction. Now, with the help of
her gumshoe ghost, Pen must solve the real-life cold case
behind the bogus bestseller before the killer closes the
book on her.
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