Book 38, 2019
Apr. 17th, 2019 07:11 pm
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Last night, I finished reading A Ghostly Mortality by Tonya Kappes. It's the sixth book in her "Ghostly Southern Mystery" series, featuring Emma Lee Raines--funeral director and Betweener.
Emma Lee and her sister, Charlotte Rae, have been at odds ever since Charlotte up and left the family business, Eternal Slumber, to take a job at a larger, shinier funeral home in Lexington, KY. All that is put aside, however, when Charlotte appears to Emma Lee...as a ghost. Although devastated to learn her sister has been murdered, Emma Lee is determined to find the culprit and get justice for Charlotte, even though that means she'll never be able to see nor speak to her sister again.
Their granny, Zula Fae, is so torn up by Charlotte's death that she's offering a million dollar reward for information leading to the killer. That draws the crazies to town, and it's all Emma's boyfriend, Sheriff Jack Henry, can handle. Someone else is taking advantage of the tragedy in an attempt to steal customers from Eternal Slumber, and now Emma Lee has a ghost cat following her around, as well. She won't let anything stop her, however, not when her latest case is so close to home.
Well now. This story was as wonderful as all the others--cute and light and funny--but I was put off by the fact that the author killed off someone so close to Emma Lee. It made for an underlying layer of sadness throughout the story.
Favorite line: "He's so crooked, you can't tell by his tracks if he's coming or going."
Despite my pique that the author killed off a main character, this was a fabulous book.