Haunted Bookshop Mystery Series Archives

Book Review: The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait by Cleo Coyle

By Doreen Sheridan

May 4, 2021

The Ghost and the Haunted Portrait by Cleo Coyle is the seventh book in the Haunted Bookshop Mystery series, where bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her gumshoe ghost team up to solve the stunning mystery at the heart of a madwoman’s self-portrait. Penelope Thornton-McClure is thrilled to be picking up a shipment of original cover…

Making Our Ghost Reappear: Why We Revived Our Haunted Bookshop Mysteries after Nearly 10 Years

By Cleo Coyle

October 2, 2018

Fictional characters haunt us. Like trusted friends, some speak to us so powerfully that we continue to hear them beyond their stories. That simple idea—the capacity of a character to come alive off the page—lies at the heart of our Haunted Bookshop Mysteries, an amateur sleuth series that my husband and I created in 2003.…