goodreads | If You've Got It, Haunt It

Title: If You've Got It, Haunt It
Author: Rose Pressey
Genre: Crime
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 304 pages
Date read: November, 2014

Cookie Chanel, owner of "It's Vintage, Y'all", loves hitting up estate sales to find new old clothes for her shop. But she gets more than she bargains for when Charlotte Meadows - deceased - decides to follow her home and threatens to haunt her until Cookie finds out who really murdered Charlotte. She doesn't trust that the police will do their job, but may be putting Cookie's life in danger by insisting she acts the sleuth herself.

I'm not typically a huge fan of whodunnits, but I will make an exception in the case of cozy mysteries if the "cozy" part is done right. And Rose Pressey managed to "do it right". I was greatly charmed by Cookie and her openminded friend Heather, who - though she couldn't see Charlotte herself - instantly believed Cookie that she was, in fact, there. Adding in a psychic cat who can communicate using an Ouija board, and the whimsy is hard to resist.

I greatly enjoyed it, even though I did think the confession at the end of the book too easily gained... but that's my common complaint with practically all mysteries and shouldn't be held against Rose Pressey's writing. She kept me very nicely entertained, and that's all I ask.