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Synopsis
After an elegant new customer has a breakdown in her shop, Penelope suspects there is something bogus behind the biggest bestseller of the year. This popular potboiler is so hot that folks in her tiny Rhode Island town are dying to read it--literally. First one customer turns up dead, followed by another mysterious fatality connected to the book, which Pen discovers is more than just fiction. Now, with the help of her gumshoe ghost, Pen must solve the real-life cold case behind the bogus bestseller before the killer closes the book on her.
Is The Ghost and the Bogus Bestseller appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
Lighthearted paranormal cozy mystery with murders investigated but no graphic violence. Deaths occur off-page, focus is on puzzle-solving with a ghost sidekick. Suitable for teen and adult mystery fans.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include murder and death.
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Who'll love this
A bookshop owner teams up with a ghost detective to solve mysterious deaths connected to a bestselling novel in this fun whodunit.