Haunted Bookshop Mystery · Book 1

The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

by Cleo Coyle

Published
1 January 2004
Pages
261
ISBN-13
9780425194614
Type
novel

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Cover of The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

About this book

The Ghost and Mrs. McClure opens the Haunted Bookshop Mystery series, first published in 2004. The Ghost and the Dead Deb follows it in the series.

Its place in Haunted Bookshop Mystery

The Ghost and Mrs. McClure is book 1 in the Haunted Bookshop Mystery series. It is followed by The Ghost and the Dead Deb. See the full Haunted Bookshop Mystery reading order.

Penelope Thornton-McClure runs Buy the Book, a secondhand bookshop in the small New England town of Quindicott, Rhode Island, that she inherited from her aunt -- and that comes with an unusual permanent resident: the ghost of Jack Shepard, a wisecracking, hard-boiled 1940s private eye who was gunned down in the store decades earlier and can't move on. Only Penelope can hear him, and his blunt, noir-honed instincts for lies and violence make him an invaluable, if invisible, partner whenever a body turns up…

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