This was my first Molly MacRae Haunted Yarn Shop mystery, despite the fact that I have been LOOKING at her books and been friends with her on Facebook for quite a while! It was well worth waiting for. I have to say, in case you are not a huge fan of ghosties and, like me, usually prefer feet firmly on the ground in your cozies, that the spirit in this novel is very well done. MacRae's ghost is an integral part of solving the crimes and she is a perfect foil to heroine Kath Rutledge.
Kath is a textile preservationist living and working in Chicago who heads home to Blue Plum, Tennessee when her beloved grandmother, Ivy, dies and leaves her a cottage and yarn shop. Kath is shocked when she discovers that the locks on Ivy's cottage have been changed, leaving her with no access to her grandmother's belongings. Shocks continue to accumulate for Kath when she discovers a letter from the landlord demanding back rent on the cottage that Ivy had so proudly owned and when she is unceremoniously let go from her Chicago job as a result of inadequate funding. To add to the mix, she discovers an unidentified ghost haunting the caretaker's cottage where she is staying. Before she even has a chance to spend the night in the cottage she discovers that her grandmother's "landlord" was recently murdered in the main bedroom of the cottage. What else could go wrong, except perhaps more murders?
MacRae's Haunted Book Shop series is cozy with a little edge. Kath and the staff of Ivy's yarn shop promise to deliver an enjoyable and, perhaps, hauntingly appealing series of adventures in books to come (a couple of which have already been published). Try them!
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