Author: Jackie Griffey
Publication Date: 1 January 2010
Publisher: Five Star (ME)
Maggie Murphy finds herself adrift after her husband dies in a motorcycle accident. Their finances werent in the best of shape and Maggie needs to find a job. Maggies offered temporary employment at her cousin Hanks newspaper, replacing an advice columnist who hasnt shown up for work in a couple of days, and she takes it, hoping to find a real job in the interim. When Maggie discovers the columnists dead body behind the office dumpster, she meets Patrolman Joe Driver, who agrees to provide Maggie the police report of her husbands death. Hank offers Maggie the columnist job full-time and things are looking up for her financially and personally as her relationship with Joe begins to blossom. After Maggie learns her husband may have been drugged before his accident, she begins receiving mysterious phone calls and her former house is bombed. As their relationship moves forward, Maggie and Joe sort out clues as to the deaths of her husband and the newspaper columnist, unaware her husbands spirit is hanging around, looking out for Maggie, who is in more danger than she and Joe realize.\n\nThis cozy mystery is filled with humor and suspense enmeshed within a plot peppered with suspicious characters and plenty of twists and turns. Characters are warm and engaging and the plot interesting and fresh and viable.
