I totally enjoyed this light, cozy, imaginative, paranormal mystery. The characters, both alive and ghostly, are likable and fascinating, especially the titular ghost, pie baker Granny Apples, who was hanged in the late 19th century by a lynch mob that accused her of murdering her husband. She wa...
This second entry in the "Ghost of Granny Apples" paranormal mystery series was great fun to read. I enjoyed the characters (especially Granny Apples, amateur sleuth Emma's ghostly great-great-great-grandmother, who is picking up some modern slang from watching TV and has become a fan of the San ...
After reading the first two books in this series, I was looking forward to this one for my Memorial Day weekend, summer cozy reading kick off. Unfortunately, Gem of a Ghost just did not delight me as much as the previous two. The beginning was good and grabbed my attention, but from there it se...
This is the 4th Odelia Gray mystery that I've read in a row. Each one is better than the last as Odelia's life evolves. There is a killer of young women loose who has been nicknamed the Blonde Bomber by the media. Odelia's elderly friend, Lil, comes to her. She is afraid that her successful son, ...
Corpse on the Cob ~MIDNIGHT INK (15) You can pick your friends but not your relatives!, February 4, 2012 By Ellen Rappaport (Florida) This review is from: Corpse on the Cob (The Odelia Grey Mysteries) (Paperback) I am already an Odelia Grey fan before starting this book so my review will be bia...
Do not read this book......unless you have nothing else to do!!! Odelia gets herself in trouble yet again and this time it's life or death for her. Who's out to get her and why???? You'll have to read the book to find out. It's fast paced and very enjoyable with some heart wrenching tossed in...
Too big to miss--that's Odelia Grey. A never-married, middle-aged, plus-sized woman who makes no excuses for her weight, she's not super woman just a mere mortal standing on the precipice of menopause, trying to cruise in an ill-fitting bra. She struggles with her relationships, her crazy family,...
Is the "Holy Pail" cursed? Every owner of the vintage Chappy Wheeler lunchbox–a prototype based on the 1940s TV western–has died. And now Sterling Price, business tycoon and a client of Odelia Grey's law firm, has been fatally poisoned. Is it a coincidence that Price's one-of-a-kind lunch pail–wo...
With the class bully murdered at her 30th high school reunion and her boss, the annoying Michael Steele, missing, Odelia doesn't know which hole to poke her big nose into first. This decision is made for her as she's again swept into the action involving contract killers, tangled relationships, a...
Kelly answered. “It will only upset her.” “What did Granny say?” asked Tanisha, looking from Kelly to Granny. “I didn’t say to call Emma,” Granny clarified. “Just think about how she would handle this.” After filling Tanisha in, Kelly decided Granny might be right. Her mother had handled lots of ...
We still didn’t know if Kim Pawlak worked for them or directly for Red Stokes, so before going we called the Elite Storage office. A man answered and told us that Kim didn’t work there; she worked for Acme Auctions. A quick Google search gave us the information we needed for location and ownershi...
Jeremiah said to Aaron who’d arrived on the scene shortly after the patrol cars. An EMT was working on Jeremiah’s shoulder, cleaning and bandaging it while he sat on the edge of the back of the ambulance. “Any idea who was shooting at you?” Aaron asked. &...
Only Samuel seemed cool and collected. He was stretched out on one of the beds without his sunglasses, watching CNN. Soon after entering their room, they had discovered a connecting door to room 107. “This is going to help us hear better,” commented...
Steele said to me, “now that we’ve dealt with your little problem, can we talk about mine, which isn’t so little?” We were in Steele’s office, having just finished up with Dev and sent him on his way. “Someone’s death is a little problem to you?” I ...
“There goes that rocker again,” Phil noted as they strolled toward Emma’s cabin. He indicated one of several large wooden rockers on the porch. “Does that quite often, breeze or no breeze.” Emma smiled. “Must be Granny enjoying some down time. Could be that’s why she’s not...
The two of them had abandoned their card game and were sitting companionably on Mom’s patio enjoying the fresh air. They looked like a couple of old hens gossiping about the neighbors. The patio ran across the front of Mom’s townhome and was bordered by a waist-high concrete block fence. It was a...
Okay, I’ll admit, it was a late breakfast. Greg had heard from Lance late the night before, but I still hadn’t heard from Miranda. We’d both heard, however, from Steele. He had sent both Greg and me texts saying it was okay for us to stop by and could we bring him a few things. The list included ...
Neither did she show up later that evening. Nor did Tessa or Sandy. Phil and Emma spent a relaxing, ghost-free evening and Saturday morning. After breakfast, they walked down to the Casino and the museum. Built in 1929, the Catalina Island Casino is the most recognizable l...
