The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller

Zusatztext Praise for the Haunted Bookshop Mysteries "A magnificent cold case mystery!"—Fresh Fiction   “Jack and Pen are a terrific duo who prove that love can transcend anything.”—The Mystery Reader “I highly recommend the complete series.”—Spinetingler Magazine “A charming! funny! and quirky mystery starring a suppressed widow and a stimulating ghost.”—Midwest Book Review “The plot is marvelous! the writing is top-notch.”—Cozy Library Informationen zum Autor Cleo Coyle is a pseudonym for Alice Alfonsi, writing in collaboration with her husband, Marc Cerasini. Both are New York Times bestselling authors of the Coffeehouse Mysteries—now celebrating more than ten years in print. As Alice Kimberly, they also write the nationally bestselling Haunted Bookshop Mysteries. Alice has worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., and New York, and has written popular fiction for adults and children. A former magazine editor, Marc has authored espionage thrillers and nonfiction for adults and children. Alice and Marc are also bestselling media tie-in writers who have penned properties for Lucasfilm, NBC, Fox, Disney, Imagine, and MGM. They live and work in New York City, where they write independently and together. Klappentext Penelope Thornton-McClure and her bookshop's ghost-in-residence Jack Shepard are back on a new case in this delightful paranormal mystery from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle. 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. Chapter 1   Girl in the Store   Some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.   -Salvador Dali   Quindicott, Rhode Island September, present day   "Excuse me, miss. Do you have the new Girl book?"   The question came on a busy Saturday afternoon. My inquisitive customer tapped me on the shoulder while I was restocking Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Masons (in order), The Case of the Velvet Claws through The Case of the Postponed Murder.   The woman was about thirty years my senior-early to mid-sixties. Fashionably slender, she wore designer jeans at least three sizes smaller than my curvy figure. Her lilac cashmere sweater was an elegant choice for the early-autumn chill, along with her matching beret, which she'd jauntily pinned to her sleek silver bob. A fine leather jacket was draped over one arm while the other balanced a stack of books from our shelves.   Judging from her posh clothing and late-September tan, I assumed she was a holdover from the summer people who had second homes in nearby Newport. I'd noticed her a few times, strolling through the streets of our little town, but I'd never seen her in Buy the Book, and I welcomed this chance to make her a regular customer.   After grabbing a basket, I helped her load it with her selections-while trying to decipher her enigmatic request.   "About the new Girl book, were you referring to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Are you looking for one of its sequels?"   "No, no! That's the Millenniu...

Product details

• Authors: Cleo Coyle
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.09.2018
• EAN: 9780425237458
• ISBN: 978-0-425-23745-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 170 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Haunted Bookshop Mystery; Haunted Bookshop Mystery
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense