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Rent Night of the Living Deed (A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery)
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Berkley
Published: Jun 2010
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 336
Synopsis
Welcome to the first Haunted Guest House mystery-the getaway every reader can afford.
Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter. She's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian fixer-upper into a charming-and profitable-guest house. One small problem: the house is haunted, and the two ghosts insist Alison must find out who killed them.
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Reviews
This is the first in a new series. The heroine is fixing up a run-down house as a guesthouse. The house was the scene of a murder, and the two victims haunt her until she finds out who killed them by undoing her repairs until she agrees. I'm not a big fan of stories told in the first person, and this one has more than the usual number of sarcastic and self-deprecating asides. Add in a smart-aleck nine-year old daughter and an equally smart-aleck ghost, and it's a bit much for my taste. Also, it seems as if this theme is getting a lot of play lately. I may read the second book, if there is one, but it'll have to improve considerably for me to go further than that.