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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...

There seem to have been an extraordinary number of weddings in mysteries this summer. No, librarian Kathleen Paulson isn't the one getting married in Sofie Kelly's  The Cats Came Back . But, she's part of the wedding party and planning throughout the book. It's not a major plot line, but the characters are important to the series. Kathleen's two magical cats, Hercules and Owen, are essential to the main storyline. There's a music festival going on in Mayville Heights, Minnesota, with a number of performers in town. It's just part of the town's ongoing promotions. Hercules and Owen are part of that, posing for Ruby, a photographer, for a fundraising calendar to promote the town. Hercules has a different focus one night at the marina, though. Ruby finally goes to see what Hercules is focused on, and finds a body. Kathleen and Ruby both assume it's singer Emme Finley. Kathleen's the first to realize it's Emme's lookalike assistant, Miranda. ...