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The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller by Cleo Coyle

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In 2009, the fifth Haunted Bookshop mystery, The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion , came out. It was written under the name Alice Kimberly, a pseudonym also used by the authors who write as Cleo Coyle. On September 25, nine years later, the latest one in the series,  The Ghost and the Bogus Bestselle r by Cleo Coyle, will be released. Welcome back to Penelope Thornton-McClure and Jack Shepard. After her husband's death, Pen and her son moved to Quindicott, Rhode Island, where she took over her aunt Sadie's bookshop. She also found a ghost in the bookshop, the ghost of a private detective who had been killed there in 1949. As an avid fan of crime fiction, Pen is fascinated by the stories Jack tells, accounts of his cases in the 1940s. Some of those cases resemble current cases that Pen encounters. The hottest selling book in Buy the Book is Jessica Swindell's Shades of Leather . When a woman runs out of the store, after claiming it was her picture on the back of the book, takin...

Cleo Coyle - Author Interview

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I've been waiting years for a new Haunted Bookshop mystery by Cleo Coyle. I was so excited to read it, that I asked the authors if they'd answer a few questions. It's out next week, and I'll be reviewing The Ghost and the Bogus Bestselle r tomorrow. I'm glad the authors found time for the interview. Cleo (because it’s easier to call you that for the interview), would you introduce yourselves to the readers? Greetings, everyone, I am Alice Alfonsi, and I collaborate with my husband, Marc Cerasini, to write The Coffeehouse Mysteries and Haunted Bookshop Mysteries under the pen name Cleo Coyle. Marc and I also work independently under our own names. We’ve written popular fiction for adults and children; and, as media tie-in writers, we’ve penned bestselling properties for NBC, Fox, Disney, Lucasfilm, Imagine, and MGM. As for our Coffeehouse Mysteries, we’re celebrating 15 years in print, three starred reviews, and the publication of the seventeenth entry with Shot in t...