Doom with a View
A Merry Ghost Inn Mystery
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Publisher Description
When a guest mysteriously dies at the Merry Ghost Inn, Melanie and her grandmother fear that their professional reputations—and their lives—are on the line
With the arrival of six senior reading group members at the Merry Ghost Inn, the long-awaited Grand Opening week has finally begun for Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza. All is well with the Oregon coast-side B&B until Melanie’s dog, Max, finds the dead body of one of their guests.
Everyone at the inn immediately falls under suspicion, including the innkeepers themselves. Melanie and Liza are not sure who they can trust, and the idea of cohabitating with a murderer is enough to send chills down anyone’s spine. To make matters worse, the curmudgeonly town detective wants them to steer clear of the investigation, but doesn’t seem too inspired to solve the case in a timely fashion himself. To clear their own names and to avoid the blight on the inn’s reputation that yet another dead body will bring, Melanie and Liza dive headlong into the murder investigation.
With a little help from their chuckling ghost, Melanie and Liza dodge the detective, tip-toe around their suspicious guests, and still serve up delicious Bed & Breakfast meals on time in Kate Kingsbury’s delightful second Merry Ghost Inn mystery, Doom with a View.
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Kingsbury's delightful sequel to 2016's Dead and Breakfast finds former financial analyst Melanie West and her spunky grandmother, Liza Harris, ready for the grand opening of their bed-and-breakfast, the Merry Ghost Inn, in Sully's Landing, Ore. For the first evening, they have hired a magician to entertain their six guests. Unfortunately, one of them, elderly Walter Dexter, does his best to rattle the magician ("I saw better acts than that in kindergarten"). The next morning, Melanie's dog, Max, starts barking; she follows him outside and discovers Walter lying in the driveway, his head at an odd angle. Worried that Walter's demise may harm future reservations, Melanie and Liza set out to find out whodunit and restore their business's good name. Orville, the laughing ghost that haunts the old inn, assists. Revelations concerning Orville's past as a live person and the mysterious disappearance of Melanie's mother enhance the sleuthing. Cozy fans with a taste for the paranormal will be rewarded.