—Criminal Element
Welcome to Cleo Coyle’s
Haunted Bookshop…
An earnest young bookseller
and hardboiled ghost team up to catch cunning criminals in this beloved, long-running mystery series, created and written by Cleo Coyle (originally published under Cleo’s pen name Alice Kimbery).
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Readers’ Selection
“DELIGHTFUL”
—Kirkus Reviews
“These books are a WONDERFUL blend of cozy and noir, with great characters and well-plotted mysteries full of twists and turns.”
—Kings River Life Magazine
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“He is hard-boiled in the tradition
of Philip Marlowe, and she is a
genteel Miss Marple;
yet the two opposites make an
explosive combination…”
—Midwest Book Review
“Jack and Pen are a terrific
duo who prove that love
can transcend anything.”
—The Mystery Reader
** AND DON’T MISS **
An Aunt Agatha’s
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Haunted Bookshop #7
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“UNFOLDS FLAWLESSLY”
—Fresh Fiction
“Cleo Coyle has written another
knockout cozy-noir hybrid
that’s sure to satisfy”
—Criminal Element
“This is such a captivating
mystery…Jack is a perfect
match for Pen, and I adore the
relationship between them.”
—Dru Ann Love, award-winning
reviewer, Dru’s Books Musings
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“A deliciously charming mystery
with a haunted twist!” —Laura Childs
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“Combining elements of cozy mysteries with detective noir, throwing in a bit of the paranormal, this is a series that will please any mystery fan.”
—The Reader’s Connection
“These books are a WONDERFUL blend of cozy and noir, with great characters and well-plotted mysteries full of twists and turns.”
—Kings River Life Magazine
OUR REASONS WHY
Read our Author Essay published
by Criminal Element to find out…
“Why We Revived Our
Haunted Bookshop Mysteries
after Nearly 10 Years”
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our reasons.
Meet the widow,
bookshop owner…
Penelope
After her husband’s suicide, young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure moves herself and her young son from New York City back to her little New England hometown of Quindicott, Rhode Island. When she arrives, however, she finds her aunt Sadie Thornton in financial trouble and about to lose the family’s old bookshop.
Unwilling to allow the business to fail, Pen cashes her late husband’s life insurance money and uses every penny to overhaul the inventory and remodel the place. As fate would have it, the construction rouses the spirit of a dead man, a private investigator from New York who’d been gunned down on the premises in 1949 while investigating a murder. Waking from a half-century of slumber, the hard-boiled ghost is less than thrilled to find himself cosmically imprisoned within the fieldstone walls of Pen’s bookstore…
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In life, Jack’s pulse pounded to the rhythm of the city streets: the smoky dice joints and swingin’ suds clubs. Why couldn’t he have been gunned down in a joint like that? Instead, he got lead poisoning in the god-forsaken sticks, eternity in cornpone alley. There’s only one thing that makes this backwater existence tolerable. Her name is Penelope…
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Okay, so the broad is one of those annoying do-right, fair-play Jane types, but she has a nice face, a sweet voice, and Jack always had been a sucker for redheads. If he hears her thoughts right, Penelope doesn’t even believe in ghosts. Well, he never believed in them, either. But, brother, had he been wrong. Now he’s a disembodied spirit, sentenced for his sins to exist in a world he hardly knows. Lucky for him his purgatory comes with an auburn-haired angel, a doll named Penelope he can’t stop watching or watching over…
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