Kathleen W. (catsandbooks) reviewed on 12/19/2022 + 68 more book reviews

The premise of this series is clever: a young widow moves back to her hometown in order to run a book store with her aunt. The ghost of a man killed in the store many years earlier haunts it and the heroine can "hear" and "talk" to him in her head. Of course, there are murders in the town and the ghost helps the heroine solve the murders before the cloddish police chief can. The ghost can also take the heroine on trips back to his era (late 40s) to help solve his unsolved cases (he was a PI). This usually happens when she is knocked unconscious, which seems to happen quite often. The problem is that the heroine never learns. She's naive, stubborn, goes off into the proverbial dark woods by herself, etc., etc. It becomes tiresome and I skipped to the last few pages to find out "who dunnit" because I was so bored. Won't read any more in the series which is a shame because Cleo Coyle normally writes great stories.

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