The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait

Its place in Haunted Bookshop Mystery

The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait is book 7 in the Haunted Bookshop Mystery series. It follows The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller. It is followed by The Ghost and the Stolen Tears. 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…