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Learn moreWhen a visiting author is murdered, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghostly companion must spook out the devious killer in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly.
The only rule bookshop owner and widow Penelope Thornton-McClure has given ghostly hard boiled PI Jack Shepard is to not haunt the customers. But when hot young author Angel Stark arrives at the store to promote her latest, a true crime novel, Jack can hardly contain himself. After all, this is his specialty!
Angel’s book 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. But when the author winds up dead too—in precisely the same way—Pen is fast on the case … which means Jack is too. After all, a ghost detective never rests in peace.
Cleo Coyle began her writing career as a reporter for the New York Times. Now a New York Times bestselling author, she lives and works in New York City, where she and her husband collaborate on the Coffeehouse Mysteries.
Caroline Shaffer is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. A former company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for nineteen years, she received an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater.
Read by Traber Burns, Rachel Fulginiti, Keith Szarabajka, Mark Ashby, Tanya Eby, Kate Rudd, Joe Barrett, Thom Rivera, Hillary Huber, Erin Spencer, Elizabeth Wiley, Caroline Shaffer, Emily Sutton-Smith, Johnny Heller, Emily Woo Zeller, and R. C. Bray
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“Caroline Shaffer takes the lead in performing the cozy mystery sections narrated by Pen that make up the majority of this audiobook. Traber Burns voices the noir-sounding third-person chapters that portray Jack Shepard, the ghost of a 1940s PI who helps Pen.”
“A beguiling and bewitching mystery that will enchant readers…A talented storyteller.”
“Combining elements of cozy mysteries with detective noir, throwing in a bit of the paranormal, this is a series that will please any mystery fan.”
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