The town party planner has a secret, and it’ll be the death of her.Good thing amateur sleuth, Kay Carrera is on the case!Life at sixty isn’t quite what Kay Carrera expected. She’s working as a skip-tracer for a PI who is desperate to land his own reality TV show. She has a new roommate who arrived with more than the usual amount of baggage. And her attempts at knitting are less than stellar – way … than stellar – way less than stellar. Worse, the cataract surgery that restored her sight has also delivered an unexpected and disturbing side-effect.
Kay sees ghosts. And when the dead turn to her for help, she just can’t say no.
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I found this to be a fun read with a great main character who is believable and interesting. Supporting characters are quirky and loveable. Fun mystery too. Great story!
Generational interaction, realistic. Twist you don’t expect. Good writing.
Easy book to read. This isy first book from this author and I will look forward to reading another
An easy read, but we’ll written. I loved the characters, they felt very relatable. Enough intrigue to hold my interest, and light enough for the mood I was in.
Great story with engaging, likeable characters, excellent writing. I will look for more books by this author.
I was a bit concerned that this book could bog down in extraneous romantic nonsense but was pleasantly surprised that the author kept that second to the story. A book worth reading.
Too short
It was a very good book
An entertaining and easy read.
A really great cozy, especially if you are not young.
loved it
This was a quick and enjoyable read. I really enjoyed that the protagonist, Kay Carrera is a little older, 60 (like me!) to be exact. She’s been widowed and her good friend/realtor has suggested that she take on a roommate or two to help pay for her mortgage. Kay had a great job that she loved. She was a skip-chaser for J.T. Pierson Investigating but it alone wouldn’t pay her mortgage. So she agree to let her friend Carson send the man over, Judge Nathaniel Beck who had two older kids, a teen girl and a middle school boy.
Judge Beck came and okayed the house, saying yes he would be interested in three rooms but his soon to be ex-wife would need to approve or she wouldn’t agree to joint custody. She came and approved as well.
In the meantime, the small town of Locust Point has a murder and a scandal both going on. The scandal was that a local woman was brought in on charges of being a madam and word was out that she may release her little black book to get lesser charges. She ended up dead so along with her job duties, Kay started investigating, as she didn’t want history to repeat itself and have the wrong person charged for this crime.
I thought it was really cool how the judge and his kids quickly became fond of Kay and she was treating them like a grandma. She and her hubby never were able to have kids so it was especially sweet.
There is supposed to be a hint of paranormal in this which is in the form of the shadowy floaters Kay was experiencing since cataract surgery but the description of the book wasn’t quite the same as what actually happened. Unless that part got edited out, there is nowhere that anyone dead asks for Kay’s help. At first I thought maybe the floater was representing Kay’s husband Eli keeping a watchful eye out for his beloved wife but again, the description was a little confusing so who knows what happens between the blurb and the edits, right?
All that matters is that I really enjoyed this and I’m anxious to see what happens next to my new friends in Locust Point. After all, the judge signed a two-year lease so I hope he and the kids will be in the next books too.
Loved the interaction of the characters, how the story flowed. Could not wait to finish the story. Now ready to read more about Kay and the residents of Locust Point!
Loved this book – in fact, so much so that I am currently waiting for book four to arrive. Books 1, 2 & 3 are every bit as entertaining – well written and fun to become involved in. My plan is to read the whole 11 book series. Thanks to the author, I’m hooked.
It’s nice to read about an older women trying to get on with life after her husband died.
Loved the characters. It was a light read and very entertaining.
I enjoyed how the feline and humans were working for the good.
What fun this entire series is. I watch for the next one and eagerly read it. Great characters and I feel like I’m part of the neighborhood.
Cute little murder mystery where the sleuth is a 60 year old woman, very recently widowed. To make ends meet, she takes in a boarder, who happens to be a judge. Her low-paying day job is doing the computer work for a skip tracer. ( She has improbable computer skills for a senior citizen who has been out of the job market for ten years). She was “directed” to the dead body she found by what she thought might be floaters in her eye from recent cataract surgery, but comes to believe is really her late husband communicating via shadows
The “seeing the dead” angle is almost not developed at all. A very quick read, but shallow plot development.