"A Lighthearted, Well-crafted Mystery"
Ghost Gone Wild
By: Carolyn Hart
Genres: Mystery
Posted: July 30, 2014
When a woman on a black horse rides up, hands Bailey Ruth a ticket to the Rescue Express, and insists a young man needs help, Bailey Ruth assumes Wiggins, the stationmaster, has a new assistant. Bailey stumbles into trouble when she leaves heaven to help out a ghost's nephew, Nick Magruder. Unbeknownst to Bailey, this heavenly mission is not approved by Wiggins, and she is stranded on earth trying to protect Nick from murder.
Bailey makes herself visible while in Nick's house to keep him from getting shot. Then when she tries to make herself invisible again, she can't and thus begins a twisted tale or blackmail and murder. Along the way Bailey figures out that she was not sent to Adelaide and Nick Magruder by the Department but, by Nick's dead Aunt Dee. Nick's attitude and actions do not make Bailey like him but, she will not leave him in harm's way. Bailey Ruth is trapped on earth, with no money, no ID, and worst of all, in her opinion, no change of wardrobe.
In GHOST GONE WILD Bailey is stuck with an angry young man who returned to his hometown to get revenge. But someone is determined to cause trouble for Nick, and his long-running feud with a former high school enemy can only end up in tragedy. Bailey Ruth has to rely on her her own ingenuity, although sometimes Dee is a reluctant assistant. Nick may be obnoxious at times, but he doesn't deserve to be framed.
Author Carolyn Hart has done her usual in writing another fun-filled story of suspense, murder, humor and spirits. The characters are always so real, including Bailey Ruth, to the point that you actually feel that you know them as neighbors. If you like a puzzle, the pieces are all there in GHOST GONE WILD.
GHOST GONE WILD is a mystery where the main character can't die because she's already is an interesting concept. Carolyn Hart does a good job with saucy Southern belles who solve crimes. These two just happen to be ghosts sent from Heaven to help out a friend. GHOST GONE WILD is really funny and well written.
Book Summary
Carolyn Hart’s “irresistible cozy sleuth”* is back—good-hearted ghost Bailey Ruth Raeburn just can’t say no to an earthly rescue, even when maybe she should…
Bailey Ruth loves to return to earth as an emissary from Heaven’s Department of Good Intentions. Problem is, she’s a bit of a loose cannon as far as ghosts go—forgetting to remain invisible, alarming earthly creatures—so she’s far from the top of department head Wiggins’s go-to list for assignments.
That’s why she’s surprised when the Heaven-sent Rescue Express drops her off at a frame house on the outskirts of her old hometown, Adelaide, Oklahoma, where a young man is playing the drums. What kind of rescuing does he need—drum lessons? But when a window cracks and a rifle barrel is thrust inside, only Bailey Ruth’s hasty intervention saves Nick Magruder from taking a bullet. When she materializes to reassure him, she finds she can’t go back to vanishing. What gives?
It turns out she’s been tricked by Nick’s late aunt—Delilah Delahunt Duvall—to come to the young man’s rescue, which means she isn’t back on earth in service of the department. Wiggins has no idea where she is—and now she may be trapped in Adelaide forever. Unless she can help Aunt Dee snare the person who wants her nephew dead…
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by: Carolyn Hart
Berkley
October 1, 2013
On Sale: October 1, 2013
Featuring: Bailey Ruth Raeburn; Nick Magruder; Delilah Delahunt
320 pages
ISBN: 0425260755
EAN: 9780425260753
Kindle: B00C1N92U8
Hardcover / e-Book