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  <title><![CDATA[The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (Haunted Bookshop Mystery, Book 1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>This spirit is willing -- to catch a killer.

Young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure and her old Aunt Sadie are making ends meet by managing a mystery bookshop--a quaint Rhode Island landmark rumored to be haunted.  

Pen may not believe in ghosts, but she does believe in good publicity--like nabbing Timothy Brennan for a book signing.  But soon after the bestselling thriller writer reveals a secret about the store's link to a 1940s murder, he keels over dead--and right in the middle of the store's new Community Events space.

Who give Mrs. McClure the first clue that it was murder?  The bookstore's full-time ghost--a PI murdered on the very spot more than fifty years ago.  Is he a figment of Pen's overactive imagination?  Oris the oddly likable fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime?  You can bet your everlasting life on it...</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">3</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">2</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2004</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (Haunted Bookshop Mystery, Book 1)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice Kimberly]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
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  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 19 11:24:22 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 25 09:42:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started out loving this book. I mean, seriously, an unapologetic, 1940s, hard-boiled, ghost detective haunting a thirty-something bookstore owner? I'll take Jack Shepard in my head commenting on my gams any day. I'm probably a huge discredit to my women's studies minor, but there's just something ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27711935">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63979687">
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    <name><![CDATA[Drebbles]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 18 09:10:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 18 09:10:39 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>Once</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[After her husband kills himself, Penelope Thornton-McClure, moved to Rhode Island with her seven year old son, Spencer, and buys into her aunt's bookstore. She arranges an appearance in the store by Timothy Brennan, author of a series of books based on the real-life unsolved murder of private eye Ja...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63979687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62680740">
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    <name><![CDATA[Deenbat]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Manchester, NH]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 08 15:38:43 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 11 19:44:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got through the first 65 pages. That was more than enough. I'm actually going to return this to B&amp;N. For 6.99 I should at least be able to read what I buy. <br/><br/>Boring, unoriginal characters who were described in each chapter, despite repeat information. Tissue-thin plot. Steroetypical sub-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62680740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66032578">
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    <name><![CDATA[Monica]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 03 13:11:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 03 13:20:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title is no coincidence. This is an homage (or rip off) of the Ghost and Mrs. Muir, only instead of a salty sea captain, the ghost is a salty private investigator. Actually, I should say he is a private dick, because that's probably what he would have said. He was murdered in a bookstore while w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66032578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72391951">
    <user id="134600">
    <name><![CDATA[Ami]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[16517, Indonesia]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 24 17:14:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 25 15:33:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For me, with cozy mystery, the characters are the most important thing. It's not the hard-boiled mystery or the gruesome of the murder, but the fun I get reading how the 'common' people playing detectives. This book has very likable characters; with a twist. The heroine is a book-store owner while t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72391951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44849848">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Montgomery, AL]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Lovers of Mysteries, Paranormal]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 30 08:26:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 16 19:20:09 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great mystery - especially for the first in a series and for being fairly short. Penelope Thornton-McClure has recently bought into the family business - a failing bookstore - while trying to escape the suicide of her husband and the overbearing nature of her inlaws. Trying to turn busine...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44849848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49231112">
    <user id="1173994">
    <name><![CDATA[Christina]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Charlestown, MA]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 06:44:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Mar 14 06:49:07 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My sister and I love to train mysteries. These can be any kind of mysteries but we favor series based mysteries. These are just fun reads so like a great B movie, my enjoyment of the book is rated on my expectation.  This book is no more than what you expect. It isn't great but it's ok. The book's p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49231112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39580923">
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    <name><![CDATA[Melissa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Woodstock, GA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 08 04:46:06 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 10 15:40:17 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[You have to know this book is going to follow the formula, and it does. It's only a little condescending, and the main character is at least as interesting as her surroundings, which is not always the case in this genre. My biggest objection is the ghost, which I know is the gimmick in this series.....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39580923">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54539512">
    <user id="1790184">
    <name><![CDATA[Linda]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 30 19:00:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 30 19:08:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book in this Haunted Bookshop series. It's a wonderful idea for a book/ series but somehow the book itself just falls flat. The action is too slow and the living characters not very well defined. I couldn't remember who the people were half of the time and had to go back and look t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54539512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23962015">
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    <name><![CDATA[John]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 07 20:15:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 07 20:54:20 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[dont get shot in a book store]]></body>
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    <review id="60825855">
    <user id="2163808">
    <name><![CDATA[Violet]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 12 07:20:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved this book.  It finally was based on a cozy mystery scenario that so far had not been repeated over and over in other books which simply changed the locations and career choices of the main character, but were all basically the same in the end.  <br/><br/>There were some editing issu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60825855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40817931">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[#1 in the Haunted Bookshop mystery series, set in small town Rhode Island where Penelope has moved from New Yorkwith her young son Spencer after her husband’s suicide. Moving in with her aging aunt Sadie and buying half-interest in her failing bookstore, Penelope revamps it, modernizes everything ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40817931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29782009">
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    <location><![CDATA[Mohegan Lake, NY]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 10 14:16:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 11 15:32:59 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Riddled with clunky dialogue (which the writers apparently believed to be clever), unnecessary scenes, forced backstory, and a bizarre loathing for New York City, this book's one virtue is that it's a quick read. The victim is so unlikeable that the only reason I wanted to know who killed him was to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29782009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24994815">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As the title indicates this is a ghost story with the particularity of being a cosy mystery too. Young widow Penelope Thornton-McClure has moved in with her aunt Sadie to a small town intending to raise her son as she sees fit while helping her aunt running an old bookstore. <br/><br/>They renovat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24994815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76191869">
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  <read_at>Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 30 04:01:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 30 09:02:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book in a whole series about the ghost of a murdered P.I. from the 50's, who haunts a bookshop. Together with the new owner Penelope he solves crimes. <br/>The premise sounded interesting and all of those mystery novel quotes and titbits are cute, so is the trivia. Nevertheless I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76191869">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 23 06:31:12 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book.  It is told from the perspective of both the Ghost and Mrs McClure, letting you get to know both characters.  I sometimes find books written in more than one POV to be hard to follow or to bounce around too much, but that wasn't the case (for me anyway) with this book.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53699328">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 22 13:45:44 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this. It's a light, cozy mystery, but with a twist. Mrs. McClure is a rather boring bookstore owner, but her &quot;partner&quot; is the ghost of a PI who was killed 50 years ago. Their interaction is very entertaining. You get to see some of the story from her point of view, and some ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38397717">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 14 15:46:55 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 14 15:48:53 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Penelope Thornton-McClure and her Aunt Sadie manage a mystery bookstore in Rhode Island which has a resident ghost who was a private investigator who was murdered on the premises in the 1940s.  Ghost helps Pen solve the murder of an author who is murdered at the bookstore during an author visit and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46357961">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 21 14:07:13 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 15 13:20:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a nice play on the Ghost &amp; Mrs Muir concept. There the sea captain helped Mrs Muir become independent in a society that did not encourage this in women while here the PI must also work with Penelope  shaking free of her social past on her way to establishing herself as an independent booksto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38334400">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Sep 13 08:06:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This turned out to be a surprisingly enjoyable read despite the unusual concept (or rather resurrected concept) and corny language.  ]]></body>
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