Crafts and Life

Welcome to the Palace movie theater! Now Showing: Philandering husbands, ghostly sidekicks, and a murder or two.

Oh, and then there's Trixie, the lively ghost of a 1930's usherette who appears only to Nora and has a lot to catch up on. With the help of her new ghostly friend, can Nora catch the killer before there's another murder at the Palace?

What a fun and yet convoluted start to a new series :D, the only thing that grated a bit for me was the sudden inclusion of bits of classic film information that broke up the action a bit too much.

Nora has taken her best friends advice and headed away from Hollywood and the paparazzi following her due to her husband's well publicized affair, she has taken the vacant job of manager at the Palace movie theatre, a place that doesn't show the latest blockbusters but rather the classic films that stand the test of time. There is a mixed bag of staff who all seem to work there not only for the money but also because they, like Nora, enjoy these classic films.  The Palace though is somewhat rundown and it is due to the breaking of a piece of equipment that means Nora finds a man on ice, literally! in the secondary ice maker there is a very dead body, and if that wasn't enough of a shock a couple of days later she gets hit on the head by a light fitting …. and now she can see the ghost of an usherette who was killed back in the 1930's.

The do say that trouble comes in threes – Nora is beginning to think that is an underestimate when she finds oddities in the accounting, a local shop owner is attacked and she herself seems to be being stalked by a couple of men.  Now Nora, with some help from the ghostly Trixie and the rest of the (very small number of) staff need to figure out what is happening, who killed the man on ice and try to save the theatre at the same time!