It’s homecoming weekend in Sugarland, Tennessee and ghost hunter Verity Long is tickled to see so many souls—living and dead—back in town to celebrate. But not all reunions are happy ones, and when Verity stumbles upon a dead body by the football field, it appears someone has already evened the score.
The Haunted Homecoming by Angie Fox has Verity Long welcoming her mother, Tilly and stepdad to Sugarland, Tennessee
for the 106th Annual Sugarland Homecoming Festival. The town will be opening their time capsule
that weekend as well. When the time
capsule is opened, a woman in a red dress is found dead inside. It turns out to be Tilly’s best friend who
disappeared the night of her homecoming dance.
Tilly asks Verity to investigate and get justice for her friend. Verity will have to do her sleuthing while
helping Frankie evade a Cuban mobster intent on killing him (after a couple of decades
of torture). Verity will need to solve
the murder with one reluctant ghost and one overeager mother.
The Haunted Homecoming by Angie Fox is the 10th The Southern Ghost Hunter Mystery. It can be read as a standalone, but you will
be missing out on a delightful series. I
look forward to reading a new Verity and Frankie book each year and so does my
mother. When she heard I had gotten The
Haunted Homecoming, she insisted I download it on her device. I thought The Haunted Homecoming was easy to
read with developed characters and plenty of humor. I laughed often while reading this
entertaining tale (and so did my mother).
Verity must deal with her mother who insists on telling people every
detail of her life (especially the embarrassing stories and stuff Verity wants
kept secret like her ghost hunting adventures).
Frankie, of course, is up to no good.
He has a Cuban mobster gunning for him which has Frankie plotting a way
to get even. The mystery was fun to
follow. A cold case has Verity questioning
her mother’s old classmates—those alive and those who have passed. Verity had plenty of “help” from her
mother. Verity’s mother provided many
laugh-out-loud moments that included Lucy’s wearing a cheerleading outfit with
a bow for her head and a wreath for Frankie’s shed. The author ended the book on a cliffhanger
which has me eager to read Give Up the Ghost. You cannot help but love a book
that makes you laugh and smile. The Haunted Homecoming is witty tale with an aggrieved girlfriend, a killer Cuban,
a rumormonger mother, a freaked-out Frankie, a lovable Lucy, and a vexed
Verity.
Kris
The Avid Reader
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