Cleo Coyle

Alice Kimberly

THE FIRST HAUNTED BOOKSHOP MYSTERY FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR CLEO COYLE—WRITING AS ALICE KIMBERLY “Part cozy and part hard-boiled detective novel with traces of the supernatural, The Ghost and Mrs. McClure is just a lot of fun.”—The Mystery Reader Young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure and her old Aunt Sadie are making ends meet by managing a mystery book shop—a quaint Rhode Island landmark rumored to be haunted. Pen may not believe in ghosts, but she does believe in good publicity—like nabbing Timothy Brennan for a book signing. But soon after the bestselling thriller writer reveals a secret about the store’s link to a 1940s murder, he keels over dead—and right in the middle of the store’s new Community Events space. Who gives Mrs. McClure the first clue that it was murder? The bookstore’s full-time ghost—a PI murdered on the very spot more than fifty years ago. Is he a figment of Pen’s overactive imagination? Or is the oddly likable fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime? You can bet your everlasting life on it...

The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

When the author of a true crime novel is found strangled to death while promoting her book at Penelope Thornton-McClure's bookshop, Penelope and resident ghost, P.I. Jack Shepard, who cannot rest in peace until the killer is found, are fast on the case. Original.

The Ghost and the Dead Deb

When the customers that purchased rare volumes of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works begin dying, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure calls upon her resident ghost and PI Jack Shepard to read between the lines when the police rule these deaths as accidental. Original.

The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library

When her mailman hires a team of parapsychologists to exorcise all spirits from the town of Quindicott, which includes bookshop owner and occasional sleuth Penelope Thornton-McClure's ghostly friend, hard-boiled 1940s P.I. Jack Shepard, she is forced to take action. Original.

The Ghost and the Haunted Mansion

The Ghost and the Femme Fatale

Penelope Thornton-McClure and her Aunt Sadie are making ends meet by managing a mystery bookshop. Penelope has nabbed bestselling writer Timothy Brennan for a book signing, but soon after he reveals a secret about the shop's link to a murder.

When the customers that purchased rare volumes of Edgar Allan Poe's complete works begin dying, bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure calls upon her resident ghost and P.I. Jack Shepard for help when the police rule the deaths as accidental.

Don't haunt the customers. This was the only rule bookshop owner and widow Penelope had given her resident ghost PI Jack Shepard. But when the young Angel Stark arrives at the store to promote her new novel, Jack can hardly contain himself.

When the local mailman inherits a haunted house and demands an exorcism, Pen must act fast to save her favorite ghost in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly. Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure didn’t believe in ghosts—until she met the spirit of hard-boiled 1940s detective Jack Shepard. And when Pen’s friend and mailman, Seymour Tarnish, gets into deep trouble, Pen not only believes in her ghost—she also thinks he can help... An elderly lady of leisure has been found dead on posh Larchmont Avenue, her will recently, and suspiciously, revised to name Seymour as heir to her mansion. Just as eyes turn to him as the murderer—and Seymour gets busy settling into his ritzy digs—the mansion’s ghosts begin plaguing him. So he hires a team of parapsychologists to exorcise all the spirits from the town of Quindicott—and that includes Jack Shepard. Now Pen must act fast—because losing Jack scares Pen more than rattling chains and cold spots...

The Ghost and The Haunted Mansion

Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghostly companion must solve the case of a literary killer in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly. Pen has just received an extremely rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s complete works. Rumor has it a secret code, trapped within the books’ leather-bound pages, leads to buried treasure. Well, it looks like they got the buried part right—because, as Pen sells off the valuable volumes, everyone who buys...dies. Once these books go missing from their owners’ cold hands, Pen will need resident ghost and hard-boiled P.I. Jack Shepard to help crack the case. The police are skeptical that the deaths involved foul play—so it’s up to them to unravel these shocking endings...

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