The Ghost and the Femme Fatale, Cleo Coyle
The Ghost and the Femme Fatale, Cleo Coyle
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The Ghost and the Femme Fatale

Author: Cleo Coyle

Narrator: Caroline Shaffer, Traber Burns

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/22/2019

Synopsis

A film festival gone noir gives bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghostly companion a big screen caper to solve in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly.The Movie Town Theater is holding its first ever Film Noir Festival, with Pen handling book sales for the guest speakers, including screen actress Hedda Geist. The legendary femme fatale has been out of the spotlight for decades. Unfortunately, the moment she steps back into it, she’s nearly killed. Then other guests start to die, and Penelope wants to know why her little town’s Film Noir weekend has taken a truly dark turn.With local police on the wrong track, Penelope enlists the help of Jack Shepard, private investigator. Okay, so Jack hasn’t had a heartbeat since 1949, when he was gunned down in what is now Pen’s store. But the hard-boiled ghost actually remembers Hedda’s dark past and Penelope’s sure he can help solve this case—even if he and his license did expire more than fifty years ago …

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 Leya

The reason I come back to this series for more is Jack, the ghost. I love his character. He has a great sense of humor, a comedic flare and the banter between Jack and Pen is hilarious. I love the way that Pen tries to bring up to speed with the twenty-first century, and the way Jack tries to "doll"......more

Goodreads review by Ellen

When I bought this book, I didn't realize it was the third in a series of books, but I enjoyed this book so much, that I'm going to buy the first two in the series and start from the beginning. If you're into film noir, then you might want to check out this book. If you think the idea of a modern wo......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

Fourth in the Haunted Bookshop mystery series set in a bookstore, Buy the Book, in Quindicott, Rhode Island and revolving around Penelope Thornton-McClure, one of the owners, and Jack Shepherd, a ghost of a private detective murdered in the store back in 1949. The Story From the beginning we've been t......more

Goodreads review by Linda

The town of Quindicott, Rhode Island is holding a Film Noir Festival, hosted by the newly renovated Movie Town Theater. One of their supporters is none other than famous 1940's screen actress, Hedda Geist. The legendary femme fatale is almost killed when she makes an on-stage appearance for the firs......more

Quotes

“Penelope and ghost Jack cleverly solve a current-day crime…The sexual tension between them is entertaining, and the way they travel between each other’s worlds works well.” RT Book Reviews (4 stars)

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