Description
Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her gumshoe ghost team up to solve the stunning mystery at the heart of a madwoman’s self-portrait in this all new installment from New York Times bestselling author Cleo Coyle.
While gathering a collection of vintage book cover paintings for a special event in her quaint Rhode Island bookshop, Penelope discovers a spooky portrait of a beautiful woman, one who supposedly went mad, according to town gossip. Seymour, the local mailman, falls in love with the haunting image and buys the picture, refusing to part with it, even as fatal accidents befall those around it. Is the canvas cursed? Or is something more sinister at work?
For answers, Pen turns to an otherworldly source: Jack Shepard, PI. Back in the 1940s, Jack cracked a case of a killer cover artist, and (to Pen’s relief) his spirit is willing to help her solve this mystery, even if he and his license did expire decades ago.
About the Author
JoinCleo's Coffee Clubfor bonus recipes and giveaways:Click Here to Subscribe to Cleo’s Free NewsletterCLEO COYLEis theNew York TimesandPublishers Weeklybestselling pseudonym for Alice Alfonsi, writing in collaboration with her husband, Marc Cerasini. With more than 1 million books sold, they have gained an enthusiastic following. Cleo's "relenlessly entertaining" (Criminal Element) novels have been translated into Spanish, Japanese, and Czech. Their books have earned starred reviews fromLibrary JournalandKirkus, Best of Year selection honors from multiple reviewers, and have been recommended byBooklistas among the best culinary mysteries for core library mystery collections.When not haunting coffeehouses, hunting ghosts, or wrangling their rescued stray cats, Alice and Marc areNew York Timesbestselling media tie-in writers who have penned properties for Lucasfilm, NBC, Fox, Disney, Imagine, Toho, and MGM. One of those projects (ghostwritten by Alice Alfonsi) was named byEntertainment Weeklyas the best media tie-in book written that year.CONNECT WITH CLEOatCleoCoyle.comandCoffeehouseMystery.com*******CLEO'S TWO BESTSELLING SERIES:Cleo’sCoffeehouse Mysteryseries, celebrated for pioneering both the “urban cozy" and “coffee cozy” mystery genres, follows the adventures of amateur sleuth Clare Cosi, a single mom with a complicated love life who manages a Greenwich Village coffeehouse and a crew of quirky baristas who helps her solve perplexing crimes.Cleo’sHaunted Bookshop Mysteryseries, hailed as a highly original and "utterly charming" (Mystery Scene) blend of cozy and hardboiled genres, features an earnest young New England widow who catches criminals with the help of a gumshoe ghost, the irrepressible spirit of a tough private detective who’d been gunned down in her bookshop decades before.*******LATEST BOOK NEWS:Don't miss the upcoming title in Cleo's long-running Coffeehouse Mystery series,NO ROAST FOR THE WEARY,now available for pre-order. Cleo's most recent release,BULLETPROOF BARISTA,was a "wildly entertaining" (Criminal Elment) national mystery bestseller; a #1 category best seller for Amazon; and honored with 2 Best of Year list selections by reviewers. The previous book in the series, "a honey of a tale" (Kirkus)HONEY ROASTEDis now available in a new paperback edition.Cleo's latest Haunted Bookshop Mystery releases includeTHE GHOST AND THE STOLEN TEARS,praised byKirkusas "a gem of a story." AndTHE GHOST GOES TO THE DOGS,a #1 category best seller for Amazon, whichFresh Fictioncalled "amazing and unique." The next Haunted Bookshop adventure is now underway!
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