Mar. 14th, 2018

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Ghost in the Wind (A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery, #7)Ghost in the Wind by E.J. Copperman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Just polished off the final chapters of Ghost in the Wind, which is part of EJ Copperman's "Haunted Guesthouse" mystery series, which features innkeeper, novice PI, and reluctant medium Alison Kerby.

When the ghost of her adolescent crush, musician Vance McTiernan, appears in Alison's guesthouse, she fangirls like crazy. Vance wants her to look into the death of his daughter, Vanessa, which was ruled a suicide. He believes she was murdered. For once, Alison's spectral partner, Paul, is the one who's reluctant to tackle a case, while she is the one who's all gung-ho. Turns out, Paul's reservations were spot on. Vance has been lying to Alison and playing on her sympathy. However, even as Alison grows more and more disillusioned with Vance, she feels there is some truth to the theory that Vanessa was murdered, and she sticks to the case.

Alison finds herself interviewing the cover band that Vanessa belonged to, as well as her half-brother. In the meantime, she's trying to juggle running her inn, keeping her guests happy, being a single parent to her daughter Melissa, and trying to make nice with her boyfriend Josh's friends. When someone is murdered in the guesthouse, Alison must put all of her sleuthing skills to work to suss out a killer.

Fun story, with lots going on, including another ghost who kept popping up and asking Alison to find Lester. One memorable scene in particular included Vance and other noted (and notably dead) musicians putting on an impromptu "ghost concert" for Alison's guests. I didn't solve the mystery, which was a bit of a bummer.

Favorite lines:
♣ The moral high ground can give you nosebleeds.
♣ I worried about gum being a gateway drug to, I don't know, Twizzlers or something. Stay in school, kids.
♣ ...she'd seen it and had not been outwardly affected other than to ask why Professor Snape was pretending to be German.


:D

Not my favorite book in this series, but very good. Four stars:

****

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