The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

Reviewed by Trice on August 22nd, 2008, 6:30pm

by Alice Kimberly

Format: Print Books

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This was a great story. I really enjoyed the fact that it pairs two very unlikely characters, a dead 1940’s private eye and a current day single mom in a small Rhode Island town. I loved the mystery and the humor woven into the story.

            Here’s the synopsis from the back cover:

“This spirit is willing-to catch a killer.

Young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure and her old Aunt Sadie are making ends meet by managing a mystery bookshop-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 best selling 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 a 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 likeable fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime? You can bet your everlasting life on it…”

            Pen also has a young son to take care of .She decided to help her Aunt Sadie by buying into the bookstore and becoming a partner, in order to get away from her husband’s overbearing family and their desire to take her son away from her “for his own good”. You’ll meet the quirky residents of Quindicott, Rhode Island and the ‘resident’ ghost of the bookstore, while joining Penelope in her search for the truth of what happened to Timothy Brennan.

            I liked this story very much and am looking forward to reading the next 2 books in “A Haunted Bookshop Mystery” series. I hope you find the story just as enjoyable.

Trice
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