I love this series! This is the third book in the Ghostly Southern Mystery series. I love Emma Lee, Granny and the rest of the folks in Sleepy Hollow, Kentucky. In this one it is up to Emma to solve the mystery of what happened to a resident that disappeared from Sleepy Hollow five years earlier. We also find out if Granny wins the mayors race. Of course there is the continued romance blooming between Emma Lee and Jack Henry.
This book can be read alone or out of order. I think it is more fun in order but that is my opinion. Emma Lee explains about her Funeral Trauma and, really, if you want the full story on that you need to read A Ghostly Undertaking. There is mention of the mystery in A Ghostly Grave but nothing to spoil it, if you haven't read it first. There isn't any graphic sex, gory details of violence, (there is a murder just not the blow by blow, blood and guts descriptions), and only minor swearing, (minor for me means less than 10 times for the whole book. I can only recall one time from Charlotte Rae).
If you are looking for a good time, a murder or two, political shenanigans and light romance this book is definitely for you. ( )

Humorous ghost Hunter southern style ( )

I am so disappointed, I was looking forward to reading this, I love cozy Southern paranormal reads.
Meh. It got better towards the last 20%. Something really irked me, and it kept repeating, the author tried excessively hard to push the "Southern" from sayings to food and it was so over the top. it wasn't a little here and there is was a major point the focused on. I am a Southerner and I suffered from excessive eye rolling. The story was okay, the characters were silly to ridiculous and the ending was a relief. ( )

The third in the series: I like the characters, I like the humor, I like the ghosts, & I like the stories....

Emma Lee & her sister Charlotte have taken over the family's undertaker & funeral parlor business.... Charlotte on the business side & Emma Lee on the undertaker side.

When Emma Lee is hit on the head by a falling plastic Santa Clause and she begins seeing the ghosts of people her family has buried... unfortunately all those she sees have been murdered and it is up to her to help solver their murders so that they may cross over.

Emma Lee's granny is running for mayor against O'dell Burns the proprietor of the competitive Burns Funeral Home, which has the town of Sleepy Hollow in a uproar & taking sides... However, I felt that granny was over characterized, so I knocked off one star...

Meanwhile Cehpus Hardy shows up after a five year absence and Emma Lee is happy to see him, that is, until she realizes that only she can see him.

Cephus knows he was murdered and insists it was the local coroner, which whom he was last seen having an argument with over Cephus' wife. Cephus was an infamous drunk & gambler, with a secret... a secret someone was willing to kill him over.

A light, fun, & entertaining read ( )

This is the 3rd book in the Ghostly Southern Mystery series, and I found it to be just okay. The mystery was decent but I didn't feel like the story flowed as well as it could have. The dialogue was a little off at times, and one thing repeatedly bothered me. One of the characters in the book loves Stroh's beer, and main character Emma states that he pronounces it incorrectly by leaving off the "h" sound. She brings this up over and over again. The "h" in the word Stroh's is silent. Every time this would come up, I kept wondering how on earth she though Stroh's was supposed to be pronounced. It really threw me off. Everything tied together nicely at the end but I felt like there was just too much going on and too many characters for the length of the book. ( )