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Ghostly Undertaking
Tonya
Kappes
Harper Collins/Witness, Feb 24 2015, $7.99
ISBN: 9780062374646
In Sleepy Hollow, Kentucky, Emma Lee is used to
dead people lying around being the director of Eternal Slumber Funeral
Home. However, seeing and hearing ghosts
are a relatively new phenomenon that started a few months ago after Emma Lee
suffered a head injury. At the funeral
of busybody Ruthie Sue Payne, the guest of honor demands the Light Seeker Emma
Lee find the person who murdered her.
Already considered eccentric by her neighbors especially since her trauma,
Emma Lee wishes the pain in the butt when she lived and still so in the
afterlife would just go away.
Emma Lee concludes that for her to rid herself of
her constant nudnik companion, she must investigate Ruthie Sue’s death. Also making inquiries is Sheriff Jack Ross
who is attracted to Emma Lee. They team
up investigating who killed Ruthie Sue.
The first Ghostly Southern Mystery is a lively paranormal whodunit
starring a harassed heroine, a law enforcement official wanting to solve the
case almost as much as he wants to date the funeral director, and a
mean-spirited apparition. Tonya Kappes authors an amusing supernatural investigation though Emma
Lee’s deduction “skills” seem over the top of the Great Smoky Mountains and the audience will solve the case much
earlier than the affable living leads.
Harriet Klausner
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