The ghost and the bogus bestseller / Cleo Coyle.
After an elegant new customer has a breakdown in her shop, Penelope suspects there is something bogus behind the biggest bestseller of the year. This popular potboiler is so hot that folks in her tiny Rhode Island town are dying to read it--literally. First one customer turns up dead, followed by another mysterious fatality connected to the book, which Pen discovers is more than just fiction. Now, with the help of her gumshoe ghost, Pen must solve the real-life cold case behind the bogus bestseller before the killer closes the book on her.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780425237458
- ISBN: 0425237451
- Physical Description: 304 pages ; 18 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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Subject: | Women booksellers > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. |
Genre: | Ghost stories. Detective and mystery fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Cass County Library-Drexel | F COY 2018 (Text) | 0002205784172 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cass County Library-Pleasant Hill | F COY 2018 (Text) | 0002205784198 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Arnold | F MYSTERY COYLE Cleo (Text) | 30061000285425 | Mystery | Available | - |
Polk County Library-Bolivar | FIC COY (Text) | 34531000199679 | Fiction | Available | - |
St. Joseph - Downtown Library | PBM COY (Text) | 32002004751317 | Adult Paperback Mystery | Available | - |
Trails Regional-Lexington | M Coy (Text) | 2204796263 | Mystery Fiction | Available | - |
Trails Regional-Warrensburg | M Coy (Text) | 2204796271 | Mystery Fiction | Available | - |
West Plains Public Library | FIC COY (Text) | 38268201162814 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller
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The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller
Penelope Thornton-McClure and her bookshop's ghost-in-residence Jack Shepard are back on a new case in this delightful paranormal mystery from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle. A big bestseller leads to small town trouble . Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure didn't believe in ghosts, until she was haunted by the hard-boiled spirit of 1940s private investigator Jack Shepard. Now Jack is back on the job, and Pen is eternally grateful... After an elegant new customer has a breakdown in her shop, Penelope suspects there is something bogus behind the biggest bestseller of the year. This popular potboiler is so hot that folks in her tiny Rhode Island town are dying to read it--literally. First one customer turns up dead, followed by another mysterious fatality connected to the book, which Pen discovers is more than just fiction. Now, with the help of her gumshoe ghost, Pen must solve the real-life cold case behind the bogus bestseller before the killer closes the book on her.