A great seasonal read, a murder, ghost hunters, a headless ghost, a devious cat and Chandra. Halloween in a nutshell!

It was difficult to rate this one, so I'll settle on 3.5 stars. This one was on par with the first book of the series, once I got into it, I couldn't put it down. Light and entertaining, there's just something irresistible with this series.

The plot wanders a bit in the middle or so, especially the secondary plot (which I guess isn't so secondary, since it takes most of the book.) The characters need a little more development, sometimes I forget who's who because they don't stand out in my mind.

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I'm hoping this Levi romance doesn't devolve into a Fluke-ish never-ending tired plot device. Piss or get off the pot, kids. And how can everyone count on Bea to solve murders when she can't seem to grasp that Levi is blatantly hinting that he is FX O'Grady? Also, the plot with Chandra in the storeroom? Didn't make sense how she would be there just before Noreen was murdered and yet didn't seem to know who did it? And how come the ghost hunters never mentioned the "apparitions" they saw at the B&B?