The Legend of Sleepy Harlow (League of Literary Ladies Mystery, #3)

by Kylie Logan

It takes more than a lurid legend to scare off the League of Literary Ladies in the third novel in this charming cozy mystery series...
 
For Halloween, the Literary Ladies have chosen to read Washington Irving’s spooky classic, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with its infamous headless horseman. But South Bass Island has its own headless legend—of a Prohibition bootlegger named Charlie “Sleepy” Harlow. Decapitated by rival rumrunners, Harlow appears once a year in spectral form to search for his noggin.
 
This October, the Elkhart Ghost Getters (EGG) have returned to the island. The group claims that they have film footage of Harlow’s ghost, and are determined to get more. They’re staying at Bea Cartwright’s B & B, but it’s Kate Wilder who isn’t happy to see them after they trashed her winery last year. When the EGG leader turns up dead, Kate becomes the prime suspect, and the other League members need to scramble to crack the case.

• ISBN10: 0425257770
• ISBN13: 9780425257777
• Publish Date: 7 October 2014
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Imprint: Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 304
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780425257777

Reviews

[Mystereity Reviews]

A great seasonal read, a murder, ghost hunters, a headless ghost, a devious cat and Chandra. Halloween in a nutshell!

It was difficult to rate this one, so I'll settle on 3.5 stars. This one was on par with the first book of the series, once I got into it, I couldn't put it down. Light and entertaining, there's just something irresistible with this series.

The plot wanders a bit in the middle or so, especially the secondary plot (which I guess isn't so secondary, since it takes most of the book.) The characters need a little more development, sometimes I forget who's who because they don't stand out in my mind.

I'm hoping this Levi romance doesn't devolve into a Fluke-ish never-ending tired plot device. Piss or get off the pot, kids. And how can everyone count on Bea to solve murders when she can't seem to grasp that Levi is blatantly hinting that he is FX O'Grady? Also, the plot with Chandra in the storeroom? Didn't make sense how she would be there just before Noreen was murdered and yet didn't seem to know who did it? And how come the ghost hunters never mentioned the "apparitions" they saw at the B&B?