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Ghost of a Gamble
Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery #4
Sue Ann Jaffarian

Berkley Prime Crime
April 1, 2014/ ISBN 978-0-425-26217-7
Mystery/Cozy/Paranormal

Reviewed by Laura Hinds

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!

 
Reviewed 2014
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