Part of Rose Gardner Mystery
First published 2014
Rose Gardner is looking forward to a Christmas trip to New Orleans with her best friend Neely Kate Colson. Mason arranged the whole thing: shopping, good food, and seats to Wicked. Neely Kate has her own agenda. She wants to visit a psychic and finally get a straight answer about her paranormal ability. The visit goes badly. The psychic turns up dead, and Rose and Neely Kate were the last people seen with her. Now they are the prime suspects in a holiday murder case. Across town, Taylor Beaumont has been living with a ghost named Helena and running out of ideas. The psychic was her last hope for answers. Now Taylor is tangled in the same murder investigation, on the wrong side of it. The four of them, two women and one determined ghost, decide to work together. They pool what they know and push toward the truth. Christmas is running out of time, and so are they. This standalone novella brings together characters from the Rose Gardner series and the Ghost-in-Law series. No prior reading is required.
Genres: mystery, paranormal-fiction, contemporary, adult-fiction, comedy, holiday
Vibes: cozy, fast-paced, festive, humorous, lighthearted, suspenseful
Tropes: amateur-detective, cross-series-characters, found-family, holiday-setting
Setting: New Orleans
Period: Christmas
181 pages · Kindle Edition
Content warnings: murder