Ghosts In Glass Houses
The Marti Mickkleson Mysteries, Book 1
Kay Charles
5 Stars
Synopsis:
Marti Mickkleson sees ghosts. Only her great-grandmother believes her. Since she died the day before Marti was born, her support isn’t worth much in the world of the living.
When Marti wakes up in a compromising position with her estranged father standing over her, she thinks he owes her a big apology. After all, he’s dead and talking to her—and she talks back. Instead, he claims he was murdered and demands she go home and do something about it. She agrees—anything to get her father out of her life and into his own afterlife.
In Bicklesburg, she finds her once formidable mother in the throes of dementia, her perfect-prom-queen sister now a lawyer married to a not-so-perfect man, and her bad-boy high school boyfriend a private security guard watching over the family fortress. When her mother wanders away and is found cradling a bloodstained garden gnome, she and Grandma Bertie must uncover a murderer before Marti ends up a ghost herself. (Amazon)
Review:
Marti has had a pretty rough life since she left home. She has a dead-end job and no real friends. And she talks to ghosts. Her great- grandmother is always there to help her, and most of the time she is thankful. When her father dies, he keeps telling her she has to find out who killed him. She heads back home and finds that her mother is suffering from dementia and her sister is married to a not so nice man, she realizes she has a lot of work to do. She better get busy.
The author is very talented in her descriptive writing and these descriptions pulled me into the story from the very beginning. The mystery was well plotted and I like that it was not easy to figure out.
I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a well crafted cozy ghost mystery. I am looking forward to reading the next one in the series.
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