Title: Paws of Justice
Author: Karen McSpade
Date: 2025
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Quote: "A few weeks ago, my unofficial job, mostly helping the widowed residents of Shifting Sands Retirement Center contact their deceased loved ones, had become 'official'."
Even Elspeth, the new widow, wasn't surprised that her husband died. Following his wishes, she asks Sidney Grace to use her psychic gifts to help connect them. It does not go well. Elspeth, a mischievous old woman whose hobbies include annoying other retirees, is found dead. Then she's found alive, and she seems positively vampire-like.
This is no ordinary whodunit. When Sidney learns that her grandmother's old enemy, the vampire Hampton Harper, is back in town the question is how she'll stop him making vampires out of all the retirees who wanted to go and join their loved ones in peace. The answer to such a question has to be a sort of loving parody of every "witchy" TV sitcom you've ever watched, with new characters including a dachshund called Count Drogula and an ominous-looking seagull. (Some restraint is observed. The seagull's name is not Crapula and he doesn't soil Hampton's head.)
What people who celebrate Halloween might not like is that they'll have to read and plan fast to assemble party decor or costumes based on this book. Fortunately, the costumes should be easy.
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