Today's new hardcover mystery title, scheduled to be published this week by Berkley Hardcover, is Ghost Gone Wild by Carolyn Hart.
For a list of more new hardcover mysteries published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for October 2013. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of October 2013 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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Ghost Gone Wild
Carolyn Hart
Series: Bailey Ruth Raeburn (4th)
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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