Berries in Ice: A Bangor Ghost Cycle Collection (The Bangor Ghost Cycle Book 1) by Frank Booker

Malcolm Fenn spent thirty years reviewing other people’s ghosts on stage. Now he’s got one of his own — and she’s only the first.A retired theater critic living alone in a crumbling Bangor Victorian, Malcolm Fenn has made a quiet peace with solitude — until a ghost turns up in Mount Hope Cemetery with something to say, and Detective Matilda Hamlin, investigating a case that shouldn’t involve either of them, starts to believe him.Berries in Ice follows Malcolm and Matilda through twelve interconnected stories — one for every month of the year — as Briarwood’s permanent residents (a Victorian housekeeper who never left, a stage actress with a flair for drama even in death, and a ghost dog with excellent instincts) draw the two of them deeper into Bangor’s unfinished business. Some of it is decades old. Some of it isn’t finished yet.Warm rather than frightening, wry rather than grim, Berries in Ice is for readers who want their mysteries cozy, their ghosts gentle, and their small Maine city rendered with real affection. If you love a slow-burn partnership, a house with opinions, and the kind of haunting that feels more like company than a threat, Briarwood is waiting.