The Ghost and Mrs. McClure, playing on the idea of
the Ghost and Mrs. Muir, is a wonderful mystery with all the right elements in
it. Strong female and male characters, a touch of romance and special haunting.
The story continues as follows: Back in 1949 New
York PI Jack Shepard came to Quindicott, Rhode Island on a case. He was shot by
those who didn't want him to solve the mystery condemning his soul to the
bookshop where he breathed his last. Fast forward to the present day. Penelope
McClure has just moved back to Quindicott with her young son following her
husband's suicide. She takes up residence above her family's bookshop and helps
her aunt Sadie get it up and in the black again. The first step in this regard
is to get Timothy Brennan to come sign books in the shop. But all turns to
mayhem when Brennan is murdered. That's when Shepard shows up to Penelope
telling her that he can help her solve the case. At first she thinks she's
imagining things. She doesn't believe in ghosts, but a series of events
convinces her that she's not hallucinating and together the two of the go forth
to solve the murder. This is the first book in the Haunted Bookshop Mysteries
and is available on Kindle, Nook, and in paperback.
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