Alice Kimberly

The Ghost and the Femme Fatale

Sarah Sammis

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           The mystery itself was interesting and complex. There's the original case and how it influences the modern day murders. An observant reader will probably figure things out before Pen and Jack do. A reader familiar with this plot as its been done on TV in a variety of mystery series will be even more prepared for putting together the clues.

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Melissa Palmer

Book #74 Read in 2013
The Ghost and the Femme Fatale by Alice Kimberly

This is the fourth book in a cozy mystery series. Penelope owns a book store and it seems to be a magnet for murder. Pen usually begins her own investigation, with help from her live-in ghost, former private investigator Jack Shepard. In this installment, there is a film noir festival going on in town and on the first night a near miss make Pen suspicious. The following morning, an author ends up dead in her bookstore and Pen is sure this was no accident. She begins her search for the culprit.

This series is a good cozy mystery series. I love the bookstore and small town setting. The cast of characters are a great batch, especially Pen, Jack, Pen's aunt Sadie and mailman and trivia whiz Seymour. 

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Cleo Coyle

A film festival gone noir gives bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghostly companion a big screen caper to solve in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly. The Movie Town Theater is holding its first ever Film Noir Festival, with Pen handling book sales for the guest speakers, including screen actress Hedda Geist. The legendary femme fatale has been out of the spotlight for decades. Unfortunately, the moment she steps back into it, she’s nearly killed. Then other guests start to die, and Penelope wants to know why her little town’s Film Noir weekend has taken a truly dark turn. With local police on the wrong track, Penelope enlists the help of Jack Shepard, P.I. Okay, so Jack hasn’t had a heartbeat since 1949, when he was gunned down in what is now Pen’s store. But the hard-boiled ghost actually remembers Hedda’s dark past and Penelope’s sure he can help solve this case—even if he and his license did expire more than fifty years ago...

The Ghost and the Femme Fatale

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