The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

Don’t miss the second charming mystery in the Haunted Bookshop series.

Coming in December 2004!

Rule number one: don’t haunt the customers. Buy the Book’s owner Penelope Thornton-McClure has laid down the law for her resident ghost—a hard-boiled private eye named Jack Shepard, who was shot dead in her store fifty years ago. “Don’t scare away the customers!” But Jack’s not resting in peace when a parade of angst-ridden teens in cut-off t-shirts and baggy jeans flock to Pen’s store to meet their latest poster child for Prozac. Angel Stark had been best friends with a young murdered heiress, and she’s written an instant book billed as “true crime.” Her story recounts the night debutante Bethany Banks disappeared from a charity ball, full of well-heeled young people, and never returned. Bethany’s body was found, strangled to death, the next morning—and the police have yet to catch her murderer. Though more than a bit self-indulgent, Angel’s true crime tale, All My Pretty Friends, is full of the sort of juicy details that incriminate a number of young men. So when Angel herself ends up strangled in the same manner as her murdered friend, Pen is on the case—which means Jack is, too, whether he likes it or not. Rule number two: a ghost detective never sleeps!