A funeral, a ghost, a murder . . . It’s all in a day’s work for emma lee raines . . .Bopped on the head from a falling plastic Santa, local undertaker Emma Lee Raines is told she’s suffering from “funeral trauma.” It’s trauma all right, because the not-so-dearly departed keep talking to her. Take Ruthie Sue Payne—innkeeper, gossip queen, and arch-nemesis of Emma Lee’s granny—she’s adamant that … granny—she’s adamant that she didn’t just fall down those stairs. She was pushed.
Ruthie has no idea who wanted her pushing up daisies. All she knows is that she can’t cross over until the matter is laid to eternal rest. In the land of the living, Emma Lee’s high-school crush, Sheriff Jack Henry Ross, isn’t ready to rule out foul play. Granny Raines, the widow of Ruthie’s ex-husband and co-owner of the Sleepy Hollow Inn, is the prime suspect. Now Emma Lee is stuck playing detective or risk being haunted forever.
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I loved the humour and whole premise of this book. Emma Lee working in a funeral home was already an interesting angle for our leading lady and then we added the fact she could actually talk to her deceased clients and I was sold. I liked the small town of Sleepy Hollow with it’s eccentric busy body residents. I thought the murder mystery parts …
Cute little story that made me smile a lot and was very entertaining.
This is a humorous start to a series that is new to me. I have read other books by this author and enjoyed them and wanted to give this series a try. This was a fun read. Emma Lee Raines and her sister Charlotte run the family business, Eternal Slumber Funeral Home. After an accident with a plastic Santa, Emma Lee was diagnosed with the …
Emma Lee co-owns a funeral home with her sister. Emma recently suffered a head injury. Since the head injury, Emma can see ghosts not just any ghosts but ghosts who were murdered. Recently deceased Ruthie Sue died in what everyone believes was an accidental fall. However, Ruthie wants Emma to help find her killer. Everyone in town knows …
Emma Lee Raines is a local undertaker.
She and her sister, Charlotte have taken
over running the Eternal Slumber Funeral
Home from their grandmother, Zula Fae
Raines Payne. Granny owns & run the local
Inn with Ruthie Sue Payne.They are arch
enemies. They were married to the same
man at different times. Earl Payne is now
deceased.
Ruthie …
Emma Lee Raines works in the family business with her sister, Charlotte Rae, as director of the Eternal Slumber Funeral Home. After a conk on head though, Emma Lee is seeing and talking with the ghosts of some their clients (the deceased clients).
Most recently, she’s being visited by the ghost of her grandmother’s hated business partner, Ruthie …
Usually I like silly, easy to read, beach books. This one was difficult for me to connect with the characters, plot, story line, and tempo.
This is the first book in this series that I’ve read and I was pleasantly surprised. I highly recommend this book and this series by Author Tonya Kappes. It’s a wonderfully written story and series.
Is southern small town culture as bad or good as the book depicts. I hope not but it did seem a lot like my grandparent’s home town in rural NC.
The book was silly but I enjoyed reading it.
Kappes writes a captivating ghostly story that keeps you on your toes!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book and can’t wait to read the rest in the series.
I loved the characters and the plot kept me guessing. I can’t wait for more like it.
I enjoyed reading this book very Much!
Emma Lee is the co-owner of a funeral home. Ruthie Sue has recently passed has come to Emma lee asking for help as her death was an accident. Emma Lee has to find the killer so she can rest in peace.
Sleepy Hollow is a small town in KY. Everyone knows everything and gossips of course what to talk about anything exciting. People think Emma is a …
Emma is not a demure southern belle. She’s a true southern gal after my own heart. Blurts out what pops in her mind. Not afraid to look crazy. Dives in feet first and to heck with the consequences.
Life gets crazy for Emma after a plastic Santa falls off the roof of Artie’s deli and Meat the and knocks her out. When she comes to see can see …
Loved it. Tonya Kappes is fast becoming one of my favorite authors!