The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller by Cleo Coyle

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The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller (A Haunted Bookshop Mystery #6)
Cover of The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller by Cleo Coyle
Author(s) Cleo Coyle
Published September 18th, 2018
Genre(s) Cozy Mysteries, Paranormal Romance
Age group Adult


Summary

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.

Trigger Warnings

  • 1940's derogatory slang
  • Murders
  • Suicide (mentioned, MC's husband)

Series

Representation

An asterisk (*) indicates that the author openly identifies with that identity.

  • Divorced white female MC
  • Ghost white male MC
  • Gay male SC

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