The Ghost Goes to the Dogs

Its place in Haunted Bookshop Mystery

The Ghost Goes to the Dogs is book 9 in the Haunted Bookshop Mystery series. It follows 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…