Emma
Whitecastle isn’t your everyday ghost-communicator.
You see, she has the ghost of her great-great-great-grandmother,
Granny Apples as a sidekick. When Emma is asked to help her
mentor, Milo Ravenscroft’s mother, Dolly, with a possible
haunting, she and Granny Apples head to Las Vegas to see what
they can do.
Dolly
is being spooked by a ghost named Lenny, who warns that a
mobster called Nemo has a bone to pick with the former showgirl.
When Nemo turns up dead, and Dolly disappears, things look
bad and Dolly is suspected of killing him. Emma and Granny
Apples are on the case to find Dolly and unmask the real killer.
This
is a fun series, and this book is no exception. I do find
that it has a different feel to it than the previous books,
but I am chalking that up to a change in editors, as well
as normal progression of a series moving out of the familiarity
of its safe zone.
Jaffarian
writes quirky and paranormal in such a comfortable manner
that it all seems perfectly plausible. Emma is smart and funny,
the mystery, while a somewhat complicated plot isn’t
too busy, and overall the book is a fast read. By fast read,
I mean that I couldn’t put it down because I just had
to know what would happen next.
Mystery
fans who love a good ghost tale, with a fair amount of hijinks,
and shenanigans, you’ll enjoy finding out who snuffed
Nemo, and you’ll also realize that not everything that
happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!
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