The Ghost and the Dead Deb, Cleo Coyle
The Ghost and the Dead Deb, Cleo Coyle
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The Ghost and the Dead Deb

Author: Cleo Coyle

Narrator: Caroline Shaffer, Traber Burns

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/20/2018


Synopsis

When a visiting author is murdered, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghostly companion must spook out the devious killer in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly.The only rule bookshop owner and widow Penelope Thornton-McClure has given ghostly hard boiled PI Jack Shepard is to not haunt the customers. But when hot young author Angel Stark arrives at the store to promote her latest, a true crime novel, Jack can hardly contain himself. After all, this is his specialty! Angel’s book is an unsolved mystery about a debutante found strangled to death. And it’s filled with juicy details that point a finger at a number of people in the deb’s high society circle. But when the author winds up dead too—in precisely the same way—Pen is fast on the case … which means Jack is too. After all, a ghost detective never rests in peace.

About Cleo Coyle

Cleo Coyle grew up in a small town near Pittsburgh. After earning scholarships to study writing at Carnegie Mellon and American University, she began her career as a cub reporter for the New York Times. Now a New York Times bestselling author, Cleo lives and works in New York City, where she collaborates with her husband to pen the Coffeehouse Mysteries. Together Cleo and her husband also write the Haunted Bookshop Mysteries under the name Alice Kimberly.

About Caroline Shaffer

Caroline Shaffer is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. A former company member at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for nineteen years, she received an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater.

About Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Candace on December 10, 2012

My favorite part about reading these books is going back in the fourties with Jack Shepard. He makes me want to continue to finish the series.......more

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on April 08, 2014

Books differ from stories on film. A burst of curiosity accompanies our first visual glimpses. The novelty makes it difficult for a sequel to recapture that lustre. An author explains people, premise, setting, sentence by sentence. It is a while before they can turn to the main point of a first volu......more

Goodreads review by Linda on April 03, 2020

I really enjoyed this book. It's the second book in the series but the first one that I've read. It was easy to catch on to and I enjoyed the concept of the ghost and loved his 40's talk. I hope to read more in the series. #readforkimberly......more


Quotes

“Caroline Shaffer takes the lead in performing the cozy mystery sections narrated by Pen that make up the majority of this audiobook. Traber Burns voices the noir-sounding third-person chapters that portray Jack Shepard, the ghost of a 1940s PI who helps Pen.”

AudioFile

“A beguiling and bewitching mystery that will enchant readers…A talented storyteller.”

BestReviews.com

“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.”

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