Granny was famous for her award-winning apple pies-and notorious for murdering her husband Jacob at their homestead in Julian, California. The only trouble is, Granny was framed, then murdered. For more than one hundred years, Granny’s spirit has been searching for someone to help her see that justice is served–and she hits pay dirt when she pops in to a séance attended by her … great-great-great-granddaughter, modern-day divorced mom Emma Whitecastle. Together, Emma and Granny Apples solve mysteries of the past–starting with Granny’s own unjust murder rap in the final days of the California Gold Rush.
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This book is great. I am a fan. Emma returns to the town of her ancestor and where her Granny that has been dead for over 100 hundred years needs her help to solve her husband’s murder and clear her name. The ghost of Granny is determined to help Emma figure it all out. You laugh, cringe, tear up and puzzle through the book. It is a great read …
Great mystery with a ghost that you fall in love with. Granny is funny, and full of life…for a dead woman. Highly recommend
This review is for the audio book.
I really enjoyed book three of this series so jumped at the chance to listen to how it all began (book one) so glad I did because this book was just as good. The characters are so engaging I just love them, especially Granny Apples. The story is very clever the way Emma has to solve both an old murder with the …
cozy-mystery, amateur-sleuth, paranormal, ghosts, California, verbal-humor, situational-humor
***** I win! An author I’ve never read, the first book in a series, a narrator I’ve never listened to, and won in a giveaway!
The publisher’s blurb is a pretty good hook, but the story is even better. I’m not really into plot summaries or spoilers, but …
Emma Whitecastle discovers she can see ghosts when her great-great grandmother appears to her demanding that Emma solve her century old murder. This was a fun debut that suffered just slightly from a weak ending. Keeping in mind I’m not normally a supernatural mystery guy, I am looking forward to the next one.