With the arrival of six senior reading group members at the Merry Ghost Inn, the long-awaited Grand Opening week has finally begun for Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza. All is well with the Oregon coast-side B&B until Melanie’s dog, Max, finds the dead body of one of their guests.
Everyone at the inn immediately falls under suspicion, including the innkeepers themselves. Melanie and Liza are not sure who they can trust, and the idea of cohabitating with a murderer is enough to send chills down anyone’s spine. To make matters worse, the curmudgeonly town detective wants them to steer clear of the investigation, but doesn’t seem too inspired to solve the case in a timely fashion himself. To clear their own names and to avoid the blight on the inn’s reputation that yet another dead body will bring, Melanie and Liza dive headlong into the murder investigation.
With a little help from their chuckling ghost, Melanie and Liza dodge the detective, tip-toe around their suspicious guests, and still serve up delicious Bed & Breakfast meals on time.
After the skeleton and fire in the first book Melanie and Liza are settling in with the opening week of the B&B, they have an assistant (who is a little startling when you first see her and she seems to dress as a Goth all the time but other than that she is a hard worker and they are grateful to have her), as this falls over Halloween they have set up a small party with their assistant's boyfriend doing a magic show – but one of the elderly book club visitors isn't getting into the swing of things and spends the whole time griping at the magician!
Unfortunately the next morning Melanie and her dog Max find the grouch dead on the drive and this appears to be no accident. So Melanie and Liza need to figure out if the Magician, their assistant or one of the other guests is a cold blooded murderer (add in Officer Grumpy who is telling them to stay well away from the investigation and the fact that none of the other guests appear to be telling the truth – oh their ghost still chuckling away and they have their hands well and truly full.)
Crafts and Life 
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