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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Kay is an armature sleuth detective in her little town of Locust point. This was a very good cozy mystery it wasn't like other cozy mysteries, it didn't give away Whodunnit too early into the book. I really enjoyed that. I think that Kay and Judge Beck are going to make a good crime solving team. This won't be my last book I read by Libby Howard ( ) Kay Carerra, a recently widowed skip-tracer, gets involved in a missing person case. To complicate things, she's just taken on a lodger - a judge and his teenage children - to help pay her mortgage. This cosy mystery was an enjoyable quick read. The story is told in first person. I found Kay a sympathetic and engaging character without being neurotic or over-dramatic (something that puts me off many cosies). The clues were decently presented and fitted together well with the solution. The ghostly element was quite small and pretty much served to point her in the direction of clues, without being overdone. (And I much prefer a helpful ghost to the sleuth just happening to guess where to look!) The characters were fun and distinctive without becoming caricatures, and I look forward to meeting them again in future books. Kay Carrera is picking up her life a step at a time. Her husband has died and after taking care of him for 10 years she is short money and short friends. Kay takes a job as a skip tracer for the local PI, but to save her beloved Victorian house she will have to find a renter. And, perhaps best or is it worst of all, she sees ghosts. A cozy mystery with a cast of characters that is diverse. no reviews | add a review
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Life at sixty isn't quite what Kay Carrera expected. She's working as a skip-tracer for a PI who is desperate to land his own reality TV show. She has a new roommate who arrived with more than the usual amount of baggage. And her attempts at knitting are less than stellar-way less than stellar. Worse, the cataract surgery that restored her sight has also delivered an unexpected and disturbing side-effect. Kay sees ghosts. And when the dead turn to her for help, she just can't say no. No library descriptions found.
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