5 stars for Ghosts & Gowns by Lucinda Race #paranormalcozymystery #cozymystery #ghost #bookreview #nnlbh
- N. N. Light
- Jun 11
- 3 min read
Title: Ghosts & Gowns
Author: Lucinda Race
Genre: Paranormal Cozy Mystery
Book Blurb:
Enjoy this humorous, small-town, psychic, cozy mystery by best-selling and award-winning Lucinda Race.
She didn’t want to talk to ghosts or investigate a murder.
Designer and reluctant ghost whisperer Claudia Grant has moved to the picturesque small town of Drakes Bay to reopen her late uncle’s dress shop. To her surprise, Uncle Herman didn’t die of natural causes, and an even bigger surprise, his ghost has taken up residence in her shop.
On Claudia’s first day in town, she meets Beth, a fellow shop owner. While cleaning fingerprint dust, Claudia receives a phone call from a local man claiming Herman planned to sell her shop to him. Curiosity piqued— she agrees to a meeting. The police burst in while she’s hovering over his dead body, holding a gun.
As the only suspect and the real killer on the loose, Claudia must follow the clues linking these two murders. With some help from her new friends, including a handsome cop, can she figure out whodunit before the police slap on the handcuffs and formally charge her with murder?
If you enjoyed a Bookstore Cozy Mystery Series, this spin-off series should be on your TBR. Ghosts & Gowns is the first book in A Paranormal Ghost Cozy Mystery Series. It's a light-hearted, small-town psychic cozy mystery that guarantees the culprit is caught. Although each book can be read as a standalone, it is best to read them in order. Enjoy!
This book is for you if you like:
Whimsical world building
Quirky characters
Small towns
A dash of romance
A loveable old-fashioned ghost
My Review:
Claudia has a special gift: being able to talk to ghosts. When her Uncle Herman’s spirit materializes before her eyes, she’s got no idea what’s in store. All she wants to do is design dresses in the shop she’s inherited from her uncle. Instead, she’s teaming up with her new best friend and solving two murders and a break-in. With the help of her uncle, a cute police officer, and her bestie, she’ll try to apprehend the murderer before she’s charged with the crime.
Ghosts & Gowns is a delightful paranormal cozy mystery. This is book one of the spin-off series to Lucinda Race’s widely popular Bookstore Cozy Mystery series. Ghosts & Gowns moves at a quick pace with descriptive narration, small-town setting, quirky characters and a mystery to solve. Readers of Lucinda Race will delight in the parallels to the Bookstore Cozy Mystery books.
Overall, this is a good start to a new series. I found Uncle Herman to be a refreshing twist on the paranormal cozy mystery genre. I look forward to the next book in the series.
My Rating: 5 stars
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Author Biography:
Award-winning and best-selling author Lucinda Race is an avid fan of fiction. As a young girl, she spent hours reading cozy mystery and romance novels and getting lost in the fun and hope they represent. While her friends dreamed of becoming doctors and engineers, her dream was to become an expert at crafting a captivating novel.
As life twisted and turned, she found herself writing nonfiction but longed to return to her true passion. After developing the storylines for the McKenna Family Romance series and the Paranormal Cozy Nook Bookstore Series, she decided it was time to start living her dream. Her fingers practically fly over computer keys. She weaves paranormal cozy mystery stories and romance with guaranteed happily ever afters.
Lucinda lives with her two little dogs, a miniature long hair dachshund and a shitzu mix rescue, in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts. When she's not immersed in her fictional worlds, writing mystery, suspense, or romance novels, she’s reading everything she can get her hands on.
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Reviewed by: Nancy
