The Forgetful Dead
(2025)(The third book in the Kerilee Oberon Paranormal Cozy Mystery series)
A novel by Petra Shaw
Some souls can’t move on. Others can’t even remember why.
When a ghost appears at the Black Windmill Café with no memories—and a knack for baking croissants from beyond the grave—librarian-turned-psychic-sleuth Kerilee Oberon thinks it’s just another odd Tuesday in Molenhaven.
Then more arrive.
Spirits with no names. No pasts. Just talents too extraordinary to ignore—one paints like a Renaissance master, another builds machines not found in any science book. Someone—or something—is stealing their memories. And Kerilee is the only one asking why.
With help from two local spirit guardians, a suspiciously twitchy necromancer, and her snarky talking cat, Mysty, Kerilee is introduced to the most mysterious man in town: G.R.—better known as the Grim Reaper. His job is to guide the dead using their life’s memories. But now? The afterlife is backed up like ghostly gridlock.
As clues lead to eccentric witches, corporate conspiracies, and a forbidden kind of soul magic, Kerilee realizes the memory thief may already be watching her. And if she loses her past… she may forget who she’s fighting for.
A laugh-out-loud paranormal mystery full of quirky characters, magical secrets, and one very judgmental cat.
Genre: Mystery
When a ghost appears at the Black Windmill Café with no memories—and a knack for baking croissants from beyond the grave—librarian-turned-psychic-sleuth Kerilee Oberon thinks it’s just another odd Tuesday in Molenhaven.
Then more arrive.
Spirits with no names. No pasts. Just talents too extraordinary to ignore—one paints like a Renaissance master, another builds machines not found in any science book. Someone—or something—is stealing their memories. And Kerilee is the only one asking why.
With help from two local spirit guardians, a suspiciously twitchy necromancer, and her snarky talking cat, Mysty, Kerilee is introduced to the most mysterious man in town: G.R.—better known as the Grim Reaper. His job is to guide the dead using their life’s memories. But now? The afterlife is backed up like ghostly gridlock.
As clues lead to eccentric witches, corporate conspiracies, and a forbidden kind of soul magic, Kerilee realizes the memory thief may already be watching her. And if she loses her past… she may forget who she’s fighting for.
A laugh-out-loud paranormal mystery full of quirky characters, magical secrets, and one very judgmental cat.
Genre: Mystery
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