Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun: A Standalone Paranormal Cozy Mystery Haunted House Psychic Sleuth

· Dark Valentine Press
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All Phoebe wanted was a fresh start. What she got was a roommate forty years past his expiration date.


Clairvoyant Phoebe Finch has spent her whole life learning to ignore the things only she can sense — the grief soaked into old houses, the secrets people don’t say out loud, the occasional opinion from someone no longer technically alive. Burned out and done with all of it, she buys a dilapidated Victorian B&B in the foggy coastal town of Madrona Cove and plans to disappear into a quiet life of sanded floors and fresh paint.


Then she meets her permanent houseguest.


Lanny Olsen died in 1988 at the age of eighteen and has never left the building. He’s loud, nosy, stuck in the decade that killed him, and convinced his death was no accident. He wants justice, and he’s decided Phoebe is going to get it for him, whether she likes it or not.


She doesn’t. But the more she pokes at the forty-year-old cold case, the more she realizes Lanny might be right. The town closes ranks. The handsome local archivist, Theo Lindgren, knows far more than he’s letting on. And somewhere behind Madrona Cove’s lavender beds and wellness retreats, someone is still protecting a very old, very ugly secret.


Phoebe just wanted to renovate a house. Instead, she’s about to renovate the truth…one buried clue at a time.


Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun is a completely standalone paranormal cozy mystery — no prior books required, just a fresh start, a stubborn ghost, and a mystery that won’t stay buried.


Keywords: paranormal cozy mystery, haunted house mystery, cold-case cozy mystery, romantic cozy mystery (slow-burn), paranormal mystery romance, clairvoyant/medium heroine, friends-to-lovers paranormal

All Phoebe wanted was a fresh start. What she got was a roommate forty years past his expiration date. Clairvoyant Phoebe Finch has spent her whole life learning to ignore the things only she can sense — the grief soaked into old houses, the secrets people don’t say out loud, the occasional opin...

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1 review
Tracie Joy
September 16, 2026
What a great story The mystery moves quickly, the paranormal elements are woven naturally into the story, and I was completely invested in both finding out what really happened to Lanny and watching Phoebe begin building a new life. Fast-moving, funny, cozy, romantic without being overly spicy, and thoroughly entertaining. Five stars from me.
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USA Today bestselling author Christine Pope has been writing stories ever since she commandeered her family’s Smith-Corona typewriter back in grade school. Her work includes paranormal romance, cozy paranormal mystery, and urban fantasy, among others. She makes her home in Arizona’s beautiful Verde Valley. 

USA Today bestselling author Christine Pope has been writing stories ever since she commandeered her family’s Smith-Corona typewriter back in grade school. Her work includes paranormal romance, cozy paranormal mystery, and urban fantasy, among others. She makes her home in Arizona’s beautiful Ver...

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