Local Haunts: A Dreadful Penny Novella

Ghosts of the past, present, and future come together, and it isn’t even Christmas. Greenville, South Carolina, 1972 A string of brutal murders has the city on edge. All the victims have one thing in common—they worked for the Brown Tractor & Farm Supply Co. With the police stumped, Penelope Drake, private detective, takes it upon herself to follow the grisly clues left by the killer. Once again, she calls upon her friends Charles and Zed to help. Charles, though, is dealing with the ghost of Millie Priest, a Prohibition-era jazz singer who haunts his home and offers him a refuge from his pain. At the same time, an unexpected glimpse of his future leaves Zed questioning everything he thought he understood about his unusual magical talents.None of them are prepared for the revelations about the killer or his motivations. As horrific as the murders are, they merely presage something far more sinister, something related to an incident in Penelope’s father’s past. In the end, she might have to choose between finding out the truth about her father or stopping the killer.

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