Alice Kimberly

Widow Pen McClure's bookshop is haunted by the ghost of Private Investigator Jack Shepard, who was murdered there more than half a century ago. Together they investigate and solve crimes in a small town in Rhode Island, as in this installment when guests of the town's Film Noir Festival get killed off one by one.
This was an easy read, like reading a young adult or a romance novel, but I found it just okay. I probably would have appreciated it more had I started from Book 1 (sadly, books in the series are unavailable at BookMooch and difficult to chance upon at BookSale). I like the chemistry between main characters Pen and Jack, and the dream travel back to Jack's world of 1940's Manhattan. However, the mystery is just your average run-of-the-mill mystery in which the clue that ties all clues together is revealed only at the end so the reader can't really guess whodunit (unless she's paranoid and suspects everyone).
I wouldn't mind reading more from this series, but I'm not exactly scrambling to get my hands on them ASAP.
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