The Ghost of Christmas Past
- Published
- 1 January 2017
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN-13
- 9781250125729
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Ghost of Christmas Past (2017), the seventeenth book Bowen wrote solo, is the last entry she wrote alone before Clare Broyles joined her as co-author starting with Wild Irish Rose in 2022.
Key facts about The Ghost of Christmas Past
The Ghost of Christmas Past is a novel by Rhys Bowen. Readers have had it since 2017. It runs to 264 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Ghost of Christmas Past. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781250125729 to find the main one.
The Ghost of Christmas Past is book 17 of 22 in the Molly Murphy series. The series has 22 published books. However, the series starts with Murphy's Law (2001).
Vanished in the Crowd is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 10 March 2026. Meanwhile, A Whiff of Scandal comes next, with an announced date of 9 March 2027.
Additionally, Rhys Bowen writes Constable Evans and Her Royal Spyness as separate series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery shelf. Meanwhile, The Castle in the Glen is the latest published Rhys Bowen book on file, from 4 August 2026.
About Rhys Bowen
Rhys Bowen is the pen name of Janet Quin-Harkin, a Welsh-born, now California-based novelist who writes traditional mysteries across three series. See every Rhys Bowen book in order.
Its place in Molly Murphy
The Ghost of Christmas Past is book 17 in the Molly Murphy series. It follows Time of Fog and Fire. It is followed by Wild Irish Rose. See the full Molly Murphy reading order.
Molly Murphy flees Ireland in 1901 after killing a man in self-defense, arrives at Ellis Island with a dead woman's identity papers, and lands in New York City with nothing but nerve and an accidental talent for getting mixed up in murders. She becomes one of the city's only female private investigators, working cases the police won't take from a converted tenement office, while immigrant New York — Tammany Hall corruption, sweatshop labor, Broadway theater, the settlement-house movement — unfolds around her in…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250125729
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250190673
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781432843427