Family Skeleton Mystery

An adjunct professor worries she's made a grave mistake returning to her hometown when she's drawn into a decades-old murder mystery...by the victim's skeleton! Georgia Thackery isn't exactly thrilled to be moving back to her childhood home, not that she has much choice. As a struggling adjunct English professor and single mom to a teenage daughter, Georgia takes jobs wherever she can find them. At least with this new teaching gig in Pennycross, Massachusetts, she has a rent-free place to live. Besides, there's a major upside to Georgia's homecoming: Sid! Every family has secrets, but the skeleton in Georgia's closet isn't just real, he's a living (kinda), breathing (sorta), cringey-joke-making part of the family—who happens to be her best friend! No one quite knows the origins of Sid's remains, and he can't recall anything from before meeting Georgia and taking up residence in the Thackery attic. But all that changes during an outing to the local college campus, when Sid recognizes a face from his literal past life...and it chills him to the bone. Now, Sid has questions about the circumstances of his death and Georgia will do whatever it takes to help him dig up the truth. But when all signs point to murder, is Georgia in danger of becoming the next family skeleton? Fans of Charlaine Harris and Sofie Kelly will adore this charming supernatural cozy mystery, the first in the beloved “Family Skeleton” series-by Agatha Award-winning author, Toni L. P. Kelner, writing as Leigh Perry.

English adjunct Georgia Thackery and her best friend, Sid the skeleton, must find a murderer and the victim after the local high school auditorium becomes the scene of a late-night murder...and Sid is the only witness! Against her better judgment, Georgia allows her daughter Madison to sneak Sid into the Pennycross High School Drama Club's spring production of Hamlet. As a bona fide member of the Thackery family, Sid is thrilled to lend a hand-or in this case, a skull-to help Madison's thespian pursuits. But when Sid accidentally overhears a murder occurring off the stage, he and Georgia suspect something's rotten in the state of...well, Massachusetts. As an adjunct English professor, Georgia is familiar with Hamlet's typical body count. So, she knows the scene Sid heard from the wings-long after rehearsals ended, and the high school closed for the night, was definitely off-script. But how can she and Sid investigate a murder if the victim's corpse is nowhere to be found? It seems like a dead end. But even a bare bones investigation is better than none at all, because if Georgia and Sid don't act quickly, Madison and her classmates could be in danger of something far worse than stage fright...

Pennycross is spooked after a student is murdered at a popular haunted house, and now it's full scream ahead for English adjunct professor Georgia Thackery and Sid the Skeleton as they scramble to solve the case... No bones about it, Halloween is Sid the Skeleton's absolute favorite season! It's the one time of year he can freely cavort around town with his best friend, English adjunct professor Georgia Thackery. Sid's especially looking forward to Pennycross's infamous Halloween Howl. The annual, month-long event celebrates all things spooky, but its main attraction is undoubtedly the haunt at "McHades" Hall. Every October, to raise scholarship funds, McQuaid University transforms McQuaid Hall, the oldest building on campus, into an immersive haunted house experience, serving scares at the dilapidated mansion with swarms of student zombies, gallons of gag blood, and piles of plastic bones. But unfortunately, this year, visitors to McHades Hall stumble upon something unexpected, one very real murder victim... McQuaid student Kendall Fitzroy was beloved by family, friends, and her boyfriend-no one knows why anyone would want to kill her. But with the community mourning a dead co-ed, the authorities threatening to shut down the attraction, and the University standing to lose thousands in donations, it's up to Sid, Georgia, and the entire Thackery family to scare up some clues and unmask the haunt's true ghoul before they strike again.

Georgia Thackery, an adjunct English professor, has a new job teaching at Falstone College of Art and Design, known as FAD to its students and faculty. Living in a borrowed bungalow during winter in the snowiest part of Massachusetts, Georgia feels her isolation weighing as heavily as the weather. Then she receives a package containing her best friend, Sid, a walking, talking skeleton who has lived with the Thackery family since Georgia was six. With Georgia working out of town, Sid was lonely too. The two of them make plans for a cozy semester together, and it might have worked out that way if Sid hadn't snuck out in the middle of the night to play in the snow and spotted a crashed car. When he drags Georgia out to investigate, they find the driver behind the wheel, apparently dead from the collision. Initially, police think it's an accident, so Georgia and Sid think that's the end of it-until Georgia finds out the body hits closer to home than she'd realized...

Georgia Thackery is feeling pretty good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College, and she's renting a rustic cabin right by a lake for herself, her daughter, Madison, and her best friend, Sid the Skeleton. Together again, the trio are enjoying the quiet when a teenager named Jen shows up looking for her friend. Georgia doesn't recognize the name, but she learns that the person Jen was looking for is actually Sid. Sid reveals that he and Jen are part of a regular online gaming group that formed locally, and one of their members has gone missing. Sid admits that he might have bragged about his investigative prowess, enough so that Jen wants him to find their missing player. Given that Sid doesn't have many friends offline-none, really, unless you count the Thackery family-Georgia agrees to help him search. They manage to discreetly enlist Jen, who lives in town and follow the clues to... a dead buddy. Now they've got a killer on their hands. Probing the life of Sid's friend, they realize a lot is wrong both on campus and in the seemingly quaint town, and someone doesn't want them looking deeper.

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