Book 1, 2015
Jan. 2nd, 2015 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chez_jaeOff to a good start! On New Year's Day, I finished reading If You've Got It, Haunt It by Rose Pressey. It's the first in her "Haunted Vintage Mystery" series.
Cookie Chanel has a passion for vintage fashion, and she has opened her own vintage clothing store in Sugar Creek, GA. At an estate sale, she encounters the ghost of the recently deceased. Charlotte Meadows claims she was murdered, and because Cookie is the only one who can see her, she insists that Cookie help her discover whodunnit. Cookie is reluctant at first, but Charlotte is annoyingly persuasive.
Cookie begins a subtle investigation, questioning people who may have had a grudge against Charlotte. When she begins to get threatening messages on her blog site, she finally turns to the police. Along the way, the author introduces a colorful cast of characters, and Cookie manages to acquire a cat that she names Wind Song. When Wind Song shows a knack for using a Ouija board and tarot cards, Cookie is convinced she's going crazy.
This was a fun book. There's a potential romance budding between Cookie and Detective Dylan Valentine. The author did a good job of making several people suspects, and it was unclear until the end who the murderer was. I'm giving the story four stars. I might have given it five, but the ending was abrupt, and we never learned what became of Charlotte after her murder was solved. Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to reading more in this series.
★★★★
Cookie Chanel has a passion for vintage fashion, and she has opened her own vintage clothing store in Sugar Creek, GA. At an estate sale, she encounters the ghost of the recently deceased. Charlotte Meadows claims she was murdered, and because Cookie is the only one who can see her, she insists that Cookie help her discover whodunnit. Cookie is reluctant at first, but Charlotte is annoyingly persuasive.
Cookie begins a subtle investigation, questioning people who may have had a grudge against Charlotte. When she begins to get threatening messages on her blog site, she finally turns to the police. Along the way, the author introduces a colorful cast of characters, and Cookie manages to acquire a cat that she names Wind Song. When Wind Song shows a knack for using a Ouija board and tarot cards, Cookie is convinced she's going crazy.
This was a fun book. There's a potential romance budding between Cookie and Detective Dylan Valentine. The author did a good job of making several people suspects, and it was unclear until the end who the murderer was. I'm giving the story four stars. I might have given it five, but the ending was abrupt, and we never learned what became of Charlotte after her murder was solved. Nevertheless, I'm looking forward to reading more in this series.
★★★★
