The Ghostly Grounds: Murder and Breakfast (Canine Casper Cozy Mystery #1)

by Sophie Love

June had many mottos for life, one of which had been: “When the angel Lucifer fell from heaven, he landed in technology.”

Marie had been the one kid in school who, in first grade, had quickly pointed out that maybe Christopher Columbus wasn’t the big hero he was made out to be, but instead, a bully that kinda sorta took stuff that wasn’t his.

Seeing the inside of the house for the first time in twenty years, Marie wondered if it had always looked so ominous. Creepy was too strong a word, but it was similar. It made her think less of Scooby Doo and more of Ghostbusters.

Marie recalled June once telling her than even if her house was haunted, they were pleasant ghosts. “I wake up happy and bright every morning,” June had told her. “If the ghosts are responsible for that, I’m happy to have them living here.”

That’s how she met Brendan Peck—a moment she’d look back on later as one of the most pivotal conversations of her life.

It was like some strange version of Christmas morning