Gem of a Ghost: A Ghost of Granny Apples Mystery

When Emma Whitecastle is asked by Joanna Reid to get rid of the ghost of her late husband, Max Naiman, a former action film star killed in a car accident, Emma wants to say no to the arrogant and demanding woman. When Joanna lets it slip that she believes Max killed himself, Emma is more than a little intrigued. But it’s not until she finds out the couple’s daughter, Lainey, a close friend of her own daughter, is in a treatment facility after surviving multiple suicide attempts does Emma, along with the assistance of Granny Apples, get down to the business of nosing about. Is Max haunting his daughter, as well as his former wife? Or is he trying to help his daughter overcome a family curse of emotional problems? Granny and Emma discover there’s more to it than meets the eye when they encounter a vengeful spirit inhabiting an old and very large diamond – a stone from a ring Max once wore and more recently set into an engagement ring for Lainey. Who is the spirit in the ring and why is she killing the people who wear the stone? As Emma and Granny trace the history of the diamond, they follow a trail of untimely deaths all the way from California to Pennsylvania where they encounter a ghost hanging from the gallows in an historical jail, and the key to releasing the ghost in the diamond.