Old Haunts (A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery, #3) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

May 16, 2012 Moondance rated it really liked it

Shelves: betrayal, cozy, ghosts, woman-sleuth, twists-and-turns, cmt-bingo, bingo, family-business, guest-house, haunted

"Careful!"

Alison is back in her haunted guesthouse. Resident ghosts, Maxie and Paul both have requests for her. Maxie's ex-husband's bones are discovered and she wants Alison to find his murderer. Paul reveals that he was planning to ask his girlfriend to marry him and needs Alison to track her down to see how she is doing. Oh, and Alison's ex-husband shows up.

Alison has developed a program for residents to "see" the ghosts and has tours that revolve around Maxie and Paul. She and Melissa try to ...more

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Apr 19, 2025 Kelly (Maybedog) rated it really liked it

Shelves: how-audiobook, what-mystery, what-modern-fantasy, what-ghosts, what-mystery-cozy, where-audible, where-audible-free, z2025-uno-browncoats

I really liked this story. The mystery was good, even though I figured it out way too soon, and the subplot with the ghosts was excellent. The relationship drama between all the people in the house and family was well done. The father was done perfectly. The daughter is done well too, very much a tween, not too smart or ridiculously young for her age. So many authors fail at that so I praise those that get it right.

Best of all, I love, love, love the MC, Alison. She’s funny, sarcastic, sardonic I really liked this story. The mystery was good, even though I figured it out way too soon, and the subplot with the ghosts was excellent. The relationship drama between all the people in the house and family was well done. The father was done perfectly. The daughter is done well too, very much a tween, not too smart or ridiculously young for her age. So many authors fail at that so I praise those that get it right.

Best of all, I love, love, love the MC, Alison. She’s funny, sarcastic, sardonic, self-deprecating only to the right point and she breaks the fourth wall several times. I love it.

There were a lot of feel good moments and the author is very good with description. At one point the something along the lines of someone turning around and found the MC was grinning at his sweet description and I realized I was smiling too. It wasn’t for the exact same thing but it was almost. It was just adorable.

I really appreciated that the seniors really were seniors who would possibly act the way they do being in their 70s and 80s for the most part. They were active and without dementia.

I like that the ghosts haven’t been dead very long. It’s unusual. Usually ghosts in books that stick around and haunt a house are decades or centuries old. These two have only been dead a couple of years.

But there were things that really irritated me. Luther and Melanie went on and on with him trying to convince her to investigate and her saying she wasn’t the right person. Way too long. Way way too long.

I’m pretty black and white about domestic violence. This is only a mild spoiler. You learn about it early on. (view spoiler)

The police gave the MC way more info than they normally would or should have and they never really explained (view spoiler)

I enjoyed the book and will read the next one soon.

The reader of the audiobook, Amanda Ronconi, was excellent. She did both male and female voices well and had the main character’s locution just perfect. I really felt that she was Alison. ...more

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