** spoiler alert ** Ignoring the ghostly PI, the mystery's structure reads like a mixture of Coached in the Act by Victoria Laurie (2021) and Ghostal Living by Kathleen Bridge (2017). This is a mystery that requires the reader keep three timelines separate in their head if they want to solve the mystery before the main character. As with the previous books in this series, I have been listening to them as audiobooks. Early on Jack had many more first person scenes than he does in more recent volumes. In The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller, Jack's only first person scene is the prolog. Yet, for reasons that escape me, the man hired to read Jack's prolog is also given the epilog to read. The problem: the epilog is clearly written from Pen's point of view! http://pussreboots.com/blog/2022/comm...

This was still just as fun as the others in the series, however I am ready for Pen to start making some progress with Jack's death. I feel like there keep being hints that she will look into his death and that ultimately she will solve it, but practically nothing has been done yet. Maybe now that the series has started back up, that plotline will be able to move forward. Even with that complaint, this is still one of my favorite cozy mystery series and by far my favorite that has a ghost.