Kathy Lynn Emerson

Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin, recently married and owner of the Scottish Emporium in Moosetoolalook, ME, is head of the All Hallows Festival committee. A local abandoned house with a criminal past owner and rumors of treasure is perfect for the haunted house event. Mysterious lights, objects disappearing and reappearing, secret rooms and passages make it perfect until on Halloween itself a body turns up. Cute cozy mystery, perfect for the season. Not interesting enough to go after the rest of the series ,but a good read.… (more)

Tiffany Scott, Free-lanced Editor, expects the latest manuscript she receives for review to be a monster of "typos and sloppy" prose. She not only gets a lot more than she expected, but the young authors death might not be the accidental and as she wonders about the strange "inconsistency" in the manuscript and the weird behavior of those alive and well and those dead portrayed in the manuscript, and the suspicions she has that the wrong suspect is the favorite of the police and they don't really think it's accidental either, and as real life takes over and merges with a too long, terribly written "story",Tiffany begins to fear for her own life's possible ending way too soon as she follows the info in the manuscript and in the dead author's notes. Well written, well paced, and a good read for a cold winter night or a hot, sandy summer day at the beach.… (more)