The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (Haunted Bookshop Mystery #1)
Alice Kimberly, Cleo Coyle
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
3.78
· 18 ratings · 276 pages · Published: 03 Feb 2004
“Part cozy and part hard-boiled detective novel with traces of the supernatural, The Ghost and Mrs. McClure is just a lot of fun.”—The Mystery Reader
Young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure and her old Aunt Sadie are making ends meet by managing a mystery book shop—a quaint Rhode Island landmark rumored to be haunted. Pen may not believe in ghosts, but she does believe in good publicity—like nabbing Timothy Brennan for a book signing. But soon after the bestselling thriller writer reveals a secret about the store’s link to a 1940s murder, he keels over dead—and right in the middle of the store’s new Community Events space.
Who gives Mrs. McClure the first clue that it was murder? The bookstore’s full-time ghost—a PI murdered on the very spot more than fifty years ago. Is he a figment of Pen’s overactive imagination? Or is the oddly likable fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime? You can bet your everlasting life on it..
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The 'Haunted Bookshop Mystery' series
3.99 · 111 ratings- The Ghost and Mrs. McClure by Alice Kimberly Book #1
- The Ghost and the Dead Deb by Alice Kimberly Book #2
- The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library by Alice Kimberly Book #3
- The Ghost and the Femme Fatale by Alice Kimberly Book #4
- The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion by Alice Kimberly Book #5
- The Ghost and the Bogus Bookseller by Alice Kimberly Book #6
- The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait by Alice Kimberly Book #7
- The Ghost and the Stolen Tears by Alice Kimberly Book #8
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