The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

In the first Haunted Bookshop mystery by Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly, young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure and her aunt Sadie run a charming Rhode Island mystery bookstore said to be haunted. When bestselling author Timothy Brennan drops dead during a book signing, Pen must confront her skepticism about ghosts as she receives clues from the bookstore's resident spirit—an old PI who was murdered on the premises. With the stakes rising, Pen embarks on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the crime, blending the eerie with the literary in her quest for justice.