With its history of hauntings and ghost sightings, Busman’s Harbor is the perfect setting for Halloween festivities. Despite her busy schedule, Julia agrees to help out with a haunted house tour to protect her mother from overwhelming herself. But when a reenactment of a Prohibition-era gangster’s murder ends with a literal bang and a dead actor from New Jersey, Julia Snowden must identify a killer before she ends up sleeping with the fishes.
Julia is busy running her family’s clambake business and a restaurant in the off-season with Chris, her boyfriend, in Busman’s Harbor, Maine. Things are already hectic when the town kicks off its Halloween festivities, including a haunted-house tour that reenacts a Prohibition-era gangster murder that includes Julia, Chris, Sonny (Julia's brother-in-law) and Gus (the owner of the restaurant Julia and Chris use). But what’s supposed to be fun quickly turns dark when one of the actors ends up dead for real when the lights go out. Suddenly Julia isn’t just juggling the business and her family ... she’s trying to figure out who the killer is.
This quick read (it's a novella) was written in first person perspective in Julia's voice. It's a cozy mystery so there is no swearing, violence or adult activity. I thought the whodunit was a reach. At the end, there is a recipe that was mentioned during the story for pumpkin bread.
This novella is 7.5 (of 12) in the Maine Clambake Mystery series. It works as a stand alone so you don't have the read the previous ones to know what's going on. I've been reading the series recently and will keep moving through the series.
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