Ghost and the Haunted House

(Genie and Adriana Darling Cozy Paranormal Ghost Mysteries)
Paranormal Cozy Mystery
4th in Series
Setting – Fictional small town in New England
Independently Published (May 29, 2024)
Print length : 194 pages

Could quaint Cobblewood Cove be a hotbed for black magic?

Genie and her ghostly great-great-aunt Adriana have been too busy with their gelato business and helping with the restoration of the old speakeasy to notice that something isn’t quite right in their small town.

Until pranks with touch of the macabre haunt the neighborhood, right before Halloween.

But it gets worse.

When a locked room murder case points straight at a connection to dark forces, the sleuthing duo fears for the living – and the not-quite so departed.

Can they root out the evil in their midst before it ends Adriana’s happy afterlife – forever?

AMAZON

“Adriana pressed her nose against the opaque window of the speakeasy. Jolene had covered the glass from the inside with a dark film. Once she was done with the renovation, it would peel off easily. Until then, only a select few had any idea what the interior looked like.We’d been inside before, once while it was still a bar, and once to tour the premises with Jolene. I turned my back, so I didn’t have to watch my great-great-aunt walk through a wall, or most times, a closed door. I pretended to read the drenched posters on the sandwich board. “Say no to witchcraft and whisky!!!” Dark red made the exclamation marks look ominously like blood spatter. “Say no to debauchery!!!” This time, the exclamation marks were yellow. The rest was illegible and hung in torn pieces from the board.”

Carmen Radtke has spent most of her life with ink on her fingers and a dangerously high pile of books and newspapers by her side.

She has worked as a newspaper reporter on two continents and always dreamt of becoming a novelist and screenwriter.

When she found herself crouched under her dining table, typing away on a novel between two earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, she realised she was hooked for life.

The shaken but stirring novel made it to the longlist of the Mslexia competition, and her next book and first mystery, The Case Of The Missing Bride, was a finalist in the Malice Domestic competition in a year without a winner. Since then she has penned several more cozy mysteries, including the Jack and Frances series set in the 1930s and the Genie and Adriana Darling series.

Carmen now lives in Italy with her human and her four-legged family.

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