Fiction, Cozy Mystery
4****
Blurb: Come join the fun with this cute cozy mystery! House falling down? Check. Pet sitting job with annoying clients? Check. Ability to speak to ghosts, which has the unfortunate side effect of having to listen to what they say back? Double check! Hot high school crush still in town being all successful and stuff while you protest his building projects? All kinds of checks! Did anyone say Witch of Mintwood? Yup! Just add murder and this will be a week to remember!
THOUGHTS: This was a cute, quick read. Lemmi (Lemonia) is a witch who can see and talk to ghosts—including her grandmother’s pet cat, Paws. She also has a trio of snobby tea-drinking ladies on her front lawn and a nasty lady out back (along with ghostly mice, squirrels, etc.). She has moved into her grandmother’s dilapidated house along with her two best friends. Lemmi is broke, drives a car as broken down as her house, and pet sits for whatever she can get.
In this story, the backyard ghost wants Lemmi to find her missing granddaughter. As she investigates, she discovers several other issues in their small town, including a decades old murder linked to the missing girl. And she’s protesting the tearing down of an old barn in the town – one that her old teenage crush now owned. Her grandmother had always told her to stay away from the Wolf family but had never given her a reason. Lemmi can’t help it, the man is beyond gorgeous. No matter how much she tries to deny it, she is very much into him.
Enjoy the ride as Lemmi and her friends solve their mysteries, deal with ghosts, and Lemmi tries to figure out what she’s supposed to be doing.
Recommended.
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