The Ghost and the Dead Deb (Haunted Bookshop Mysteries, 2)

When 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.

About the Author

Cleo Coyle grew up in a small town near Pittsburgh. After earning scholarships to study writing at Carnegie Mellon and American University, she began her career as a cub reporter for the New York Times. Now an author of popular fiction and a New York Times bestselling author, Cleo lives and works in New York City, where she collaborates with her husband to pen the Coffeehouse Mysteries. Together Cleo and her husband also write the Haunted Bookshop Mysteries under the name Alice Kimberly. When not haunting coffeehouses, hunting ghosts, or rescuing stray cats, Cleo and Marc cook like crazy and drink a lot of java.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. Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

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