Melanie West is getting her life back on track after a messy divorce when her grandmother, Liza Harris, asks her to open a B&B with her. Together, Liza and Melanie purchase a purportedly haunted mansion on the Oregon coast and jump right into clearing out the cobwebs. But while attempting to remove wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, the new B&B owners stumble upon a very real skeleton in their closet.
The police suspect the skeleton is that of the wife of the previous owner of the B&B, but no one in town seems to want to say much about her. As the inn owners try to juggle renovations with their own amateur investigations, their grand opening looms closer and closer–and a friendly ghost in their walls starts playing tricks. But it all comes crashing to a halt when a new body is found stabbed to death on the beach below the inn–the victim chillingly close in resemblance to Melanie herself.
It seems someone doesn't appreciate newcomers prying into the small town's past, and now it's up to Melanie and Liza to get to the bottom of these murders to save their business…and their lives.
This is the first in a new series and I really enjoyed it (a pleasure after my previous finish), we have two generations of a family renovating an old house to turn it into a bed and breakfast – unfortunately during the renovations they come across a skeleton and everything grinds to a halt! The small local police department is snowed under and when there is another killing this cold case gets pushed to the bottom of the list. Liza and Melanie start poling around as they figure the only way they are going to open on time is to figure out who killed their skeleton – the ghostly chuckles just add to the stress and fun though!
4.5 stars and looking forward to the next one!
Crafts and Life 
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