Just Desserts

Ghost Detective Short Stories #1

by R.W. Wallace

The screams reverberate through our cemetery as soon as the casket exits the church, with its large group of mourners in tow.

A new arrival.

Not everyone graciously comes to terms with suddenly dying and becoming a ghost. Hardly any of us, actually.

Especially when the person who killed us still walks free.

Genres: Paranormal, Short Stories, Mystery

34 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 21, 2020

About the author

R.W. Wallace writes in most genres, though she tends to end up in mystery more often than not. Dead bodies keep popping up all over the place whenever she sits down in front of her keyboard.

The stories mostly take place in Norway or France; the country she was born in and the one that has been her home for two decades. Don’t ask her why she writes in English – she won’t have a sensible answer for you.

Her Ghost Detective short story series appears in Pulphouse Magazine, starting in issue #9.

Reviews

[Lise · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just Desserts is an introduction to a series of quick reads set in a cemetery populated by ghosts. Rather than being a horror story, it is instead an enjoyable mystery. An amuse-bouche if you will ;)

[H Bremer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delightful and unique supernatural mystery. A detective, who just happens to be a ghost, helps a recently deceased young woman resolve her murder so she can move on to the after-life, or the after-death in this case.

[Rowan Creech · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was so good and was such an interesting concept for a story. It is full of action and intrigue and I love all of the characters. I have several books by this author now just because I loved this one so much. I highly recommend it.

[Graham Carter · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting start to the introduction to the Ghost Detective series. Would have like more background story on the ghosts but maybe that comes with the other eight stories in the collection!

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short powerful story

[Carlissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this short story from the author for signing up for newsletter. Cute ghost story with some background info on characters from Beyond The Grave.

[Krista Ellis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just Desserts

Fun to read , classified for young adults. Enjoyed if enough to get whole set.
Also reading the first novel. Love the characters

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a 3.5 🌟 read rounded ⬆️ to 4 🌟.

[Dua (in reading slump) ✨ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I stumbled upon the third short story of this series on Amazon and it was free. I did some digging and found out the first story, which is this one, is also given free in exchange for subscribing to the author's newsletter. Mysteries work wonders for me when I'm going through a reading slump so I got them both and started with this one.

Basic premise is that if people have an unfinished business left upon their death, they remain as ghosts until the issue is resolved. We have two ghosts, Robert and Clothilde, who have been around for a long time and they help other ghosts get closure and move on. Here's the catch though, ghosts can't leave the cemetery their bodies are buried in so the mystery solving part can get a bit tricky.

Robert was in the spotlight here as the ghost detective and I really liked his narrative voice, it was quite funny and sassy at times. The big reveal felt a little bit cheesy but that's to be expected when the suspects come to the detective instead of the other way around.

I've been going through a rough patch lately due to a busy work schedule and some other stuff so books that don't require much brain power are exactly what I need at the moment. I'm planning to read the rest of the short stories in publishing order and then jump into the novels.