The Ghost and Mrs. McClure by Alice Kimberly

'The uptown crowd kept their trashy messes in the back alley, not on their bookshelf.” “It’s a different world than the ’40’s, Jack,” I silently replied. The booming, masculine voice in my head was either the ghost of PI Jack Shepard or a delusion of my half-demented mind. The last thing they’d ever do was write a book about it and tart it up in front of a ham-handed audience for applause.”

“In my day, dames with money from well-heeled families hired me to help them duck scandal on the QT. After all, a ghost detective never rests in peace. But when the author winds up dead too-in precisely the same way-Pen is fast on the case.which means Jack is too.

Angel's books is an unsolved mystery about a debutante found strangled to death, and it's filled with juicy details that point a finger at a number of people in the deb's high society circle. 'Don't haunt the customers!' But when the hot young author Angel Stark arrives at the store to promote her latest-a book of true crime-Jack can hardly contain himself. This was the only rule that bookshop owner Penelope had given her resident ghost, hard-boiled private eye Jack Shepard. “Lady, you can’t lay down house rules to a man with no body.”

“Well I forbid you to go up there again.” Were you spying on us? On me? Upstairs in our private rooms?” “Uh, so anyway, doll, let’s get back to the case-” 'You were there this morning? With us? Upstairs, in Spencer’s bedroom? You heard me say that?” Isn’t that what you told the kid this morning?” “Listen to me, baby, all that counts now is you and your son. 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. McClure the first clue that it was murder? The bookstore's full-time ghost, a PI who was murdered on the very spot more than fifty years before. But soon after the bestselling thriller writer reveals a secret about the store's link to a 1940's murder, he keels over dead, right in the middle of the store's new Community Events space. Pen may not believe in ghosts, but she does believe in good publicity-like nabbing Timothy Brennan for a book signing. Young widow Penelope and her Aunt Sadie are making ends meet by running their newly remodeled mystery bookshop, a quaint New England landmark, rumored to be haunted. Longtime publisher, Penguin Random House. The latest just released May 2023 from Cleo's T here are now 9 novels published thus far with Lucky for him his purgatory comes with an auburn-haired angel, a doll named Penelope he can't stop watching or watching over. Now he's a disembodied spirit, sentenced for his sins to exist in a world he hardly knows.

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The Ghost and Mrs. McClure by Alice Kimberly