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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Ghouls Just Want To Have Fun (Kathleen Bacus)


It's autumn in the heartland, when football rules and homecoming royalty reigns -- and full moons don't just mean a passing high school varsity bus. But this year, Tress Jayne Turner isn't enjoying the frivolity of the season. Our intrepid 23-year-old reporter is trying to recover from ten days at the State Fair. After being stalked by a psycho dunk-tank clown, all she wants is a slower pace, some candy corn and toffee apples -- and a serious story she can sniff out on her own.

She's in luck! Eccentric and reclusive bestselling writer Elizabeth Courtney Howard is coming to little ol' Grandville. So, what's stopping Tressa from getting the dope -- besides blackmailing six-foot-two-inch high school homecoming queen candidate with all the charm of Frankenstein in taffeta, a rival reporter out to scoop the competition, and the sexy park ranger who's kept Tressa's knickers in a knot since the fourth grade? Only the fact that the skeletons to uncover are all in a closet in Haunted Holloway Hall -- a house only Norman Bates could love.

It looks like a mother of a story.

This is the third in the Tressa Jayne Turner Mystery series or "Calamity Jayne" series. I loved this one too! I was a little shocked when all the sudden the book ended and was wanting a little more story in the end but I guess that'll just make me read the next one. :o)

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