Connie C. (CeeC) reviewed on 4/4/2011 + 23 more book reviews

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What a great series! This author is Cleo Coyle who also writes the Coffee House Mystery series. Penelope Thornton-McClure is a widow with a young son who returns to the small Rhode Island town that was her home town. She joins with her Aunt Sadie in ownership of a mystery/rare books bookshop. She also begins to "talk" to the ghost of Jack Shepard, a private investigator who died in the store in 1949. Jack is "stuck" in the store but when an author is murdered there, Jack and Penelope join to solve the murder. It turns out the author of the "Jack Shield, Private Investigator" series wrote his books based on Jack Shepard's own cases! I'm usually not a fan of the Mickey Spillane/Mike Hammer type book but this is modern day with a splash of Jack's experiences in the 1940's and the mystery of a murder in a bookstore in our modern world.

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