The Last Curtain Call

The Last Curtain Call by Juliet Blackwell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When the mysterious Xerxes group hires Turner Construction to take over the renovation of the decaying historical Crockett Theatre in San Francisco, Mel expects there to be ghosts. Lots of ghosts. She just doesn't expect one of them to be so...new. As Mel tries to figure out what happened at the theatre, she simultaneously starts researching how there came to be a ghost living in the attic of the home she and her fiancé are renovating. In the end, she solves more than one murder mystery.

I began listening to this as an eAudiobook but had to switch to reading the eBook for the last few chapters when my checkout expired before I had a chance to drive around long enough to finish. (There were holds on the eAudio but not the eBook.) I love the cozy family atmosphere in the Turner household, though I felt bad for Mel's fiancé Landon, as Mel delayed setting a date for their wedding to the point where I really wished she'd go get some therapy to deal with her issues.

For readers' advisors: story doorway is primary, setting secondary (tons of details about San Fransisco). No sex, a little mild swearing, some references to strangling & stabbing, and the threat of imminent gun violence, but nothing graphic at all.

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