julan1027 's review for:

Haunted Hijinks by Madison Johns
2.0

Agnes and Eleanor are known around town for their crime solving skills. The local police even give them a bit of leeway and let them snoop around crime scenes for clues, just so long as they keep the officials filled in on what they find. So when the two are asked to oversee the transformation of an old mansion into a B&B, and a corpse shows up on their first day on the job, nobody is surprised when Agnes and Eleanor set out to find a killer.

I was torn over this book. I like the two main characters. They are older women, living full and rewarding lives, and they are fun and spunky. Also, after a car accident, Agnes seems to have picked up a ghost who always tags along with her, and the the ghost has pretty good sense of humor too.

It was the storyline that just didn't work for me here. I never really got in to it, never really cared who did it, just never got excited about what was happening. And I'm not sure why. There was a mansion with secret passageways, and I love a mystery in a mansion with secret passageways. There were interesting characters. I don't know why it didn't work for me, but it didn't. Still, I might try another in the series.