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Welcome to the first Haunted Guest House mystery-the getaway every reader can afford.

Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter. She's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian fixer-upper into a charming-and profitable-guest house. One small problem: the house is haunted, and the two ghosts in...more

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Published June 1st 2010 by Berkley

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May 01, 2013 Cathi rated it 3 of 5 stars

I liked Night of the Living Deed. I bought it because it takes place at the Jersey Shore, where I have lived for 37 years. And because there are ghosts. It's a pretty nice cozy. Don't read it thinking it'll be the best book you ever read but it's not the worst either. Some of the characters are not really well developed but they are likable. The mystery wasn't overwhelmingly exciting but it was enough to keep me reading. I understand that this is a work of fiction. But, it's supposed to take pla...more

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Aug 04, 2012 Jennifer rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: cozy-mystery, paranormal

2 1/2 Stars

This cozy mystery by E.J. Copperman is the first in the Haunted Guesthouse series. Recently divorced single mother Allison Kerby has bought a huge Victorian home in need of some work. She hopes to renovate the home, turn it into a guesthouse, and earn her living on the Jersey Shore. There's one small flaw in her plan. The ghosts of the previous owner, Maxie, and a private detective, Paul, haunt the home and insist Allison find out who killed them.

The concept of the books is great. Th...more 2 1/2 Stars

This cozy mystery by E.J. Copperman is the first in the Haunted Guesthouse series. Recently divorced single mother Allison Kerby has bought a huge Victorian home in need of some work. She hopes to renovate the home, turn it into a guesthouse, and earn her living on the Jersey Shore. There's one small flaw in her plan. The ghosts of the previous owner, Maxie, and a private detective, Paul, haunt the home and insist Allison find out who killed them.

The concept of the books is great. The characters are likable and quirky. Allison endeared herself to me with her home renovation skills that she learned from her father -- I remember "helping" my dad by handing him nails for wallboard when I was three. She also has a sense of humor that reminds me of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum. The ghostly private detective is just the kind of guy you want Allison to meet and fall in love with, well, if he wasn't so dead. A touching climax almost makes up for the missteps in the mystery.

My main problems with this book had to do with grammar and sentence structure. Awkward run-on sentences topped eighty words and often included lots of parenthetical phrases (like this one) that didn't seem to add much (well, I guess they added a little) to the meaning of the sentence and served most often to confuse (is it just me or is this sentence getting a little hard to follow?) the reader. The plot chugged along toward the end without lagging, but without any real sense of urgency either. There were plenty of suspects, but I was disappointed by the eventual suspect to perpetrator ratio. (You'll see.) Half of Allison's "investigation" into her ghosts' deaths feels like filler and I often wondered what she thought she could learn by snooping in certain places. In the end, nothing. The snooping was only used by the author to get the character from A to B in the story, and not in a well-motivated way.

I know cozies don't have to be terribly realistic in the police procedure department but even I have watched enough "The First 48" to know that if someone is a suspect or important witness, they wouldn't be allowed to have a pizza party with their friends while her nine-year-old daughter argues with the detective during an interrogation/questioning. And speaking of the police, the author gave the police detective a name that had to be phonetically spelled out for the reader. I found the name really distracting and ended up calling her something else. Also, the Medical Examiner in the book needs to be fired because his initial autopsy was grossly negligent. But if it hadn't been, the story wouldn't have worked. Bad writer!

Overall, the book was charming, but like Allison's old Victorian, the prose in E.J. Copperman's book could use some renovation.(less)

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May 22, 2012 Susan Ferguson rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, cozy-mystery, mystery

Alison Kerby is divorced from her husband 'hereafter referred to as the Swine' and returns to her Harbor Haven with the hope of opening a guest house along the ocean. She has bought a house in the middle of a proposed development (not realizing it was being bought up all around her). She bought the house from the mother of the previous owner, who was Maxie. Maxie was found dead in the house along with a man, a private investigator acting as her bodyguard. The coroner ruled it a suicide. Maxie's...more Alison Kerby is divorced from her husband 'hereafter referred to as the Swine' and returns to her Harbor Haven with the hope of opening a guest house along the ocean. She has bought a house in the middle of a proposed development (not realizing it was being bought up all around her). She bought the house from the mother of the previous owner, who was Maxie. Maxie was found dead in the house along with a man, a private investigator acting as her bodyguard. The coroner ruled it a suicide. Maxie's mother had refused to sell it to the developer because Maxie had not wanted to. When Alison is working on the renovations - doing it herself as her father taught her - she falls off the ladder and a bucket of compound falls on her head. When she opens her eyes, she sees 2 people standing there, a little fuzzy around the edges. It seems that it is Maxie and Paul, the two who died in the house. They want Alison to find out who killed them and why because they are sure they didn't commit suicide. Alison is reluctant to accept that she can see ghosts, then she finds our her mother and daughter see ghosts all the time but hadn't told her. So, they all form an uneasy alliance to get the house - Maxie resents some of Alison's decorating ideas, as she was planning to flip the house after redecorating it. Alison's ideas do not jive with Maxie's and they are at odds at times. But Maxie does have the perfect idea for the living room. Alison's daughter has told her best friends at school that the house is haunted, and of course they told their friends so everyone has heard there are ghosts there. Alison's best friend, Jeannie, refuses to believe in the ghosts and it is funny that ghostly activity goes around her and she refuses to see it or acknowledge it. Jeannie's husband, Tony, a contractor cannot see the ghosts but believes they exist. Someone has decided there is something in the house they want and they want Alison and Meslissa out, or at least whatever is in the house and they will do whatever it takes to get it.(less)

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Aug 22, 2011 Lynn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Alison Kerby is freshly divorced mother of a nine year old who has moved back to her home town and bought an old Victorian to renovate and make into a guesthouse (NOT a Bed & Breakfast -- she doesn't cook). Shortly after she starts her work, a strange occurrence takes place -- a bucket of compound lands on her head and she starts seeing ghosts. After this she discovers that her mother has always been able to see and speak with ghosts and her daughter as well.

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Sep 08, 2010 Drebbles rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010

Newly divorced Alison Kerby is determined to build a new life for her and her nine year old daughter Melissa so she buys a fixer-upper on the Jersey Shore and is converting it into a guest house. She can do the repairs herself but isn’t expecting to encounter a pair of ghosts: that of the previous owner Maxie Malone and Paul Harrison, a private investigator who had been working for Maxie. They want Allison to find out who killed them but she needs to be careful – the killer is willing to strike...more

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Jun 07, 2010 Liz rated it 3 of 5 stars

I’m not sure what possessed me to buy this book – it just appeared in the mail after one of my book-ordering sprees.

The premise is not especially original, woman buys house, house is haunted, the ghosts want the new owner to help solve the mystery of their death. This time the new homeowner is Alison Kerby and she wants to open a guesthouse on the Jersey Shore. The ghosts are Maxie, the former owner and Paul, the private investigator who Maxie had hired to help figure out who was sending her thr...more I’m not sure what possessed me to buy this book – it just appeared in the mail after one of my book-ordering sprees.

The premise is not especially original, woman buys house, house is haunted, the ghosts want the new owner to help solve the mystery of their death. This time the new homeowner is Alison Kerby and she wants to open a guesthouse on the Jersey Shore. The ghosts are Maxie, the former owner and Paul, the private investigator who Maxie had hired to help figure out who was sending her threats and also as a bodyguard. However, one night they were both poisoned and are now stuck in limbo wondering what the heck happened. Maxie is pissed – Paul is more irritated at what he sees as a failing on his part.

After Maxie brains Alison with home repair supplies, Alison is able to see and hear the ghosts who immediately demanded her help. Alison is reluctant to get involved until the same threats that were coming to Maxie begin to come to here.

This is the first in a new series, which means there is a lot of set-up of personalities who will show up in later books. Melissa, Alison’s precocious (isn’t funny how all fictional children are precocious?) nine-year-old daughter, Loretta, Alison’s doting mother, Alison’s best friend Jeannie and Jeannie’s husband, the cranky detective who dislikes Alison’s prying, the old-school reporter who knows the whole town, and of course, Ned Barnes, Melissa’s dreamy history teacher.

Side note: How much has elementary school changed since I’ve been there? When I was in elementary you had your primary teach who taught all the subjects and then a once a week art teacher and maybe a music teacher. I did not have a separate history teacher when I was nine.

There are plenty of red herrings, though the real reason for the murder doesn’t surface until late in the game. The villains aren’t terribly well hidden, though their reasons aren’t completely clear until the end. However, the reasons, like the premise, aren’t terribly original.

I did like Alison. She is handy for one, her father taught her a lot about home repair and she is doing most of the renovations on her guesthouse on her own. She is devoted to her daughter, though she has moments when she wants to shake her – same with her own mother who drives her batty. And she’s not a complete idiot either. Just because she suspects someone, she doesn’t go full out crazy when she’s around them. Alison’s only real problem comes when she has to deal with ghosts talking to her while she’s trying to act normal in front of family and friends.

Bottom line is that I enjoyed it and I’d like to read the next in the series when it comes out.
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Feb 13, 2013 C. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: riedel-titles-2013

The most exciting stories in the world, are about spiritual encounters and aged houses with secrets for discovery. It isn't an author's responsibility for books to "be what we expected". "Night Of The Living Deed" was not but reviews shouldn’t be based on that. Here are my two cents on what it IS. :) I'm a 'save the best for last' person and since a full on ghost story has been hard to find since the 1990s, I savoured this modern 'Haunted Guesthouse' series by collecting it and holding it in que...more

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Jan 14, 2013 Joanne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal-cozy-mysteries

I really, really liked this paranormal cozy! Alison Kerby is a recently divorced mom with a precocious nine year old daughter. To provide a future for herself and Melissa, she buys an old mansion by the Jersey Shore and plans to open it as a guesthouse for vacationers. She gets more than she bargained for when she learns that the house is haunted by the ghost of the previous owner, Maxie Malone and her private investigator, Paul. Although the official cause of their deaths was ruled suicide, the...more

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Aug 01, 2011 Karen B rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery, read-since-joining-goodreads

This was one of those "feel good" mysteries that I love so much.
I decided to try this because the setting was the Jersey Shore and I live in NJ.
Alison has bought and is trying to fix up a beautiful Victorian house that she is planning to make into a guesthouse. The problem is that she already has two guests to start with, two ghosts who died in that house and want her to help find who murdered them and why. As Alison digs into the investigation she learns that both her daughter, Melissa, and h...more

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Aug 04, 2010 LJ rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary_post_1945, cozy, amateur_sleuth, male_author, mystery, new_jersey, paranormal_fantasy

First Sentence: “I don’t get it, Mom. If this is our house, why are other people going to live here?”

Alison Kerby is newly divorced, has a nine-year-old daughter and is opening a guesthouse–not a B and B and no breakfast will be served—on the Jersey Shore. What she doesn’t expect is for her first guests to be two ghosts who had died in the house. Although their death had been ruled as suicide, they want Alison to find their murderer.

This was a complete non-starter for me. Having personally exper...more

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Sep 25, 2011 Pam rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, mystery, ghosts, series

The first in a new mystery series is set in a small town on the New Jersey shore. The premise isn't original but I really enjoyed all the unique characters...both living and dead. I liked Allison and her talent to renovate most things in the house on her own. And that she got her ability to see ghosts after being hit in the head with a five-gallon bucket of joint compound...thanks to ghost Maxie...it was a hoot. This woman is able to take most things is stride, so finding her house is inhabited...more

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Nov 08, 2012 Alannah rated it 3 of 5 stars

Premise: single mom Alison Kerby buys Victorian mansion with the intention of turning it into a guesthouse (NOT a bed & breakfast, as the aforementioned single mom continuously points out). Alison is a whiz at home repairs and is doing her own renovations on the mansion. After getting bopped on the head with a bucket of joint compound, she's suddenly able to see the two ghosts who inhabit the mansion. Unluckily for ghosts Paul and Maxie, not only were they murdered - they don't know who kill...more

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Jun 05, 2011 Cynthia rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery-group-read

What can you possibly say about a book touted as 'A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery' that doesn't sound overly kitschy? This first in a new series about things that go bump in the night was OK. The premise was enough to grab my attention: Single mom buys Victorian house on beach. She plans to renovate and open a Guesthouse (she doesn't call it a B&B because she doesn't plan on having food). As soon as she moves in, weird things start to happen. A large hole appears in a plaster wall. Tools begin...more

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Sep 07, 2010 Tracy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ghosts, mystery, paranormal, humor

Alison Kerby a newly divorced mother, along with her 9-year old daughter Melissa, is fixing up a guesthouse (not a B&B) in her home town of Harbor Haven on the Jersey Shore with money she earned from a sexual harassment suit against her previous employer. After a joint compound bucket falls on Alison’s head, she wakes with a severe concussion and is able to see the resident ghosts. The ghosts are the former owner, Maxie, and her private investigator / bodyguard, Paul. They were investigating...more

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Jun 21, 2010 Patty rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love this book! It was fun and humorous as well as a wonderful character study. Of course, I've enjoyed everything that E.J.'s alter-ego has written so it wasn't much of a surprise.

Alison Kerby has purchased a house and is working to renovate the seven (!) bedroom house into a guesthouse. She's a pretty fair carpenter and "handywoman" who is doing most of the work herself. She is trying to build a new life for herself and her nine-year-old daughter. When she is hit on the head by a bucket she...more

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Nov 06, 2011 Ami rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: cozy-mystery

This is a charming cozy mystery ... I find Alison Kerby, a newly divorced mother who is very competent in fixing the house as refreshing. I love how she deals with her nine-year-old daughter and her own mother. It is so funny when Alison finds out that she is not the only one in the Kerby's family that can see the ghosts :).

In fact, all of the characters here are charming ... including the resident ghosts, Paul and Maxie. Oh, Maxie might drives Alison crazy at first but she IS good with Alison's...more

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Oct 28, 2010 Myhotstylist rated it 5 of 5 stars

Great start to a new series!

Meet Alison Kerby, new homeowner to a fixer-upper guest house, and her daughter Melissa. Alison's renovations get turned upside down when a pair of ghosts decide to drop a bucket of copound on her head. Now Alison and see and hear the ghostly duo, and they insist she help them find out their killer. What she discovers is that theres a valuable hidden artifact inside the house, and theres someone in town that would kill to get it.

This book was awesome!!! Do not be fo...more

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Mar 30, 2011 Snap rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2011

Night of the Living Deed: A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery by E.J. Copperman is a cozy mystery, the first in a new series and a winner. Alison Kerby is newly divorced and she wants a second chance for herself and her nine year old daughter Melissa. She returns to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a fixer-upper into a guesthouse. Alison was taught by her father all the ins and outs of home repair and she worked for a homecenter so she's good with tools and knows what she needs to do to wo...more

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Jun 12, 2011 Cathy Cole rated it 5 of 5 stars

First Line: "I don't get it, Mom."

Newly divorced Alison Kerby has returned to the Jersey Shore to fulfill a dream: renovating a Victorian fixer-upper into a beautiful guesthouse. She figures she has the know-how and just enough money to complete the makeover and open for business so she can provide a decent future for Melissa, her nine-year-old daughter.

As she begins the process of renovating, she gets the odd vibe now and then but thinks nothing of it until a fifty-pound bucket of joint compoun...more First Line: "I don't get it, Mom."

Newly divorced Alison Kerby has returned to the Jersey Shore to fulfill a dream: renovating a Victorian fixer-upper into a beautiful guesthouse. She figures she has the know-how and just enough money to complete the makeover and open for business so she can provide a decent future for Melissa, her nine-year-old daughter.

As she begins the process of renovating, she gets the odd vibe now and then but thinks nothing of it until a fifty-pound bucket of joint compound knocks her in the head, and she begins seeing ghosts. Two of them. One an evil-tempered young woman named Maxie (the previous owner of the house), and the other, a private eye named Paul. Both died in the house on the same night. Police think they "drank the Kool-aid" and committed suicide. Maxie and Paul insist that they were murdered-- and they also insist that Alison drop everything to find out who killed them.

It's quite a stretch for Alison to believe in the resident ghosts to begin with, but she finally has no alternative. Both ghosts are very good at getting their way, although they have very different methods. However, Alison's not bad at driving a hard bargain herself, and she manages to persuade them that she'll investigate as long as the renovations keep on schedule. As she begins to play sleuth, things begin to happen, and she realizes that she'd better identify the killer before she becomes the third ghost in her guesthouse. (And don't you dare call it a bed and breakfast!)

I was in the perfect mood for a light, fast-paced, and laugh-out-loud funny read. Night of the Living Deed almost immediately had me in reading nirvana. The cast of characters is superb. Alison's voice is pitch-perfect: alternately sarcastic, befuddled, DIY knowledgeable, stressed out, and punch-drunk... as only the mother of a young girl can be. Her daughter, Melissa is a nine-year-old prosecuting attorney who's the perfect sort of child to have live in a haunted house. Alison's mother, her friends, the police detective she runs to constantly, and the ghosts, Maxie and Paul, all add color, depth and humor to the story.

When I wasn't laughing or telling Alison to "Check there! Check there!", I was appreciating the fact that this mystery with the home renovation theme actually had quite a bit of DIY detail. Alison kept to her bargain and managed to wear her deerstalker cap while she refinished cabinets. So often in themed mystery series, the theme seems to be a thin veneer that's easily cast aside. Not so in this book, and that's refreshing.

I tired of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series long ago, and I've felt the lack of a truly funny mystery series in my reading life. No more-- and I have E.J. Copperman to thank for it!(less)

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Nov 02, 2010 Cindy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Great book! I wanted to find out more about E.J. Cooperman, (male or female) so I looked on her/his website. It appears that the author is actually a well-known mystery novelist who is branching out into a new area and wants to remain anonymous. I'm looking forward to the next book due out in April 2011.

Alison and her daughter buy a fixer-upper to turn into a vacation place along the Jersey shore. She doesn't realize until after a bump on the head that something else came along with her purchase...more

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Sep 27, 2012 Robert Edler rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

First, the mysterious E.J. Copperman isn't that mysterious. He is in reality Jeffery or Jeff Cohen the author of two previous mystery series that I have enjoyed reading: The Aaron Tucker series (For Whom The Minivan Rolls +3), and the Double Feature series featuring movie theater owner Elliot Freed (Some Like It Hot Buttered +2).

The Haunted Guesthouse series is the first to feature a female lead character, Allison Kirby. Allison has just purchased a big old historic house on the Jersey Shore wit...more

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Aug 30, 2012 NJMetal rated it 3 of 5 stars

I read NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEED by EJ Copperman as an exercise in supporting local writers. You see I am from New Jersey and EJ Copperman is as well. His ghost/mystery story NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEED (referred to as NotLD from here on) is a story based in New Jersey. Though mysteries are outside my normal scope of reading, I still thoroughly enjoyed this one.

The story is set in a fictional town along the Jersey Shore. Though the town is fictional all other locals mentioned are very real places in...more

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Jul 03, 2010 Lindsay rated it 4 of 5 stars

After I got this book home and was about to read it, I thought that maybe it wasn't since a good idea to read a book about a haunted house, since I often think that my apartment is haunted. But the book wasn't scary at all. It was actually kind of funny, and I liked it.
Its about a woman and her daughter who buy a giant house in New Jersey and she is trying to fix it up and make it a guesthouse. But soon she finds out that its haunted by two people who were murdered there and they ask for her to...more

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Jun 15, 2011 Tami rated it 3 of 5 stars

I started reading this, expecting it to be a knock-off of Alice Kimberley's Haunted Bookshop series, which seems to have a similar premise- a private investigator is killed while on a case and is now unable to leave the building in which he was killed. However, that is where the similarities end.

Night of the Living Deed focuses on the renovation of a house into a guesthouse on the Jersey Shore. After being hit on the head, the owner starts seeing the two ghosts who inhabit the house, and slowly...more

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Oct 10, 2011 Karen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Welcome to the first Haunted Guest House mystery-the getaway every reader can afford.

Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter. She's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian fixer-upper into a charming-and profitable-guest house. One small problem: the house is haunted, and the two ghosts insist Alison must find out who killed them.

Enjoyed reading this first of a series mystery with some supernatural characters. I...more

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May 04, 2011 Patti rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: i-own-this-book, mystery, patti-s-favorites-of-2011, read-in-2011, paranormal

I almost didn't read this book because I had heard it had ghosts in it; ghosts work sometimes, but not all the time. I was browsing at work, and came across this, it sounded like something I was looking for, and I brought it home. I am very happy I did. Everything worked for me in this book--the main character and her daughter, their friends, the suspects, the mystery, and the ghosts (there are two). I enjoyed this book from beginning to end. Minor quibble from someone who has never repaired any...more

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Apr 03, 2012 Debbie Heaton rated it 5 of 5 stars

In Copperman’s mystery novel, recently divorced Allison Kerby is looking for a second chance for both her and her daughter. Returning to her hometown on the Jersey Shore, she purchases a fixer-upper with plans to establish her own Guesthouse. But a bump on the head has her seeing the ghosts of two people who died in her house and they want her to find their killer. And finding their killer puts Allison and her daughter in the line of fire.

Copperman has brought together a bright and lively combin...more

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Jul 07, 2012 Richard rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-12

When it comes to supernatural mysteries, apparently my hope, as they say, does spring eternal.
I've yet to find a series that I like, but I keep on trying....
This isn't the worst such book I've read, but it really isn't very good, either.
There were quite a few points at which I questioned the basic intelligence of various characters. But one of he most annoying things here was the heroine's attitude: her reaction to discovering that her house is haunted by two not entirely friendly murder victims...more

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May 31, 2011 John rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery

At first I thought this would be a ripoff of the "Haunted Bookshop" series, but I was pleasantly surprised. The protagonist is savvy and funny, without being (stereotypically "Jersey") over-the-top. I did have issues with the Canadian ghost's having decided to move to the States and start working as a detective, without any mention of American relatives nor special work skills; I also couldn't buy into the nasty references to Alison's ex-husband without learning exactly why he was so awful?

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May 22, 2011 BJ rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm not really a fan of ghost or paranormal novels, but this one I like. It is a fun read and doesn't take itself too seriously. It does, however, have a satisfying plot, and the characters are likable and caring, even the dead ones. Admittedly, it gets a bit schmaltzy at the end, but it worked for me because I felt it was written by a tender heart. I am still not a fan of ghost stories for the most part, but I am a fan of E.J. Copperman/Jeffrey Cohen. I recommend this book to mystery fans who n...more

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