Haunted Bookshop Mystery · Book 4

The Ghost and the Femme Fatale

Published
1 January 2008
Pages
235
ISBN-13
9780425218389
Type
novel
Cover of The Ghost and the Femme Fatale

About this book

The fourth Haunted Bookshop Mystery book, The Ghost and the Femme Fatale, runs 235 pages, pairing Penelope's cozy village sleuthing with Jack Shepard's noir-honed instincts for lies and violence, as in every entry.

Key facts about The Ghost and the Femme Fatale

Cleo Coyle wrote The Ghost and the Femme Fatale, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2008. The book has 235 pages.

We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780425218389 to find the main one.

The Ghost and the Femme Fatale is book 4 of 9 in the Haunted Bookshop Mystery series. The series has 9 published books. However, the series starts with The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (2004). The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 5 September 2006.

Additionally, Cleo Coyle writes Coffeehouse Mysteries as a separate series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery shelf. Meanwhile, No Roast for the Weary is the latest published Cleo Coyle book on file, from 2025.

About Cleo Coyle

Cleo Coyle is the joint pen name of husband-and-wife writing team Alice Alfonsi and Marc Cerasini, used for their long-running Coffeehouse Mysteries series, which follows Clare Cosi, manager of a landmark Greenwich Village coffeehouse, as she solves murders connected to the New York coffee and food world. See every Cleo Coyle book in order.

Its place in Haunted Bookshop Mystery

The Ghost and the Femme Fatale is book 4 in the Haunted Bookshop Mystery series. It follows The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library. It is followed by The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion. 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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