Puss Reboots: Blog: January 2023: Night of the Living Deed

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Night of the Living Deed: 01/27/24

Night of the Living Deed by E.J. Copperman and Amanda Ronconi (Narrator) (2010) is the start of the Haunted Guesthouse mystery series. Newly divorced Alison Kerby and her nine year old daughter have moved into the last remaining Victorian era house on the Jersey Shore; the others slated for razing and redevelopment. After an accident involving a bucket of plaster to the head, Alison has the ability to talk to the ghosts of the home's former owner and her P.I. They want her to solve their murder.

Alison's story is a balancing act. She has a deadline to fix up her new home. She has her own threatening notes to contend with. She has the ghosts making demands. And finally, there's a rumor of a much older deed with ties to the American Revolution. It's all too much.

This mystery reads like a mash-up of three other series I'm following: the Fixer-Upper mysteries by Kate Carlisle, the Beyond the Page Bookstore mystery series by Lauren Elliott and Haunted Bookshop mystery series by Alice Kimberly/Cleo Coyle. I'm not sure where the series is going now that the initial ghostly mystery is solved but I'm hooked.

The second book is An Uninvited Ghost (2011).

Five stars