Mischief in Mudbug (Ghost-In-Law Mystery Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Jana DeLeon (Author)

Book Description

Series: Ghost-In-Law Mystery Romance | Publication Date: October 2009

Sabine LeVeche, orphaned at an early age, is in the middle of a medical crisis and needs to find a blood relative STAT. Luckily, she’s got a sexy PI and one sassy but determined ghost on her side. Not so luckily, there’s a murderer gunning for her just in case her illness doesn’t kill her first.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Love Spell; Original edition (October 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0505527855
• ISBN-13: 978-0505527851
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #253,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jana DeLeon was raised in southwest Louisiana among the bayous and gators. Her hometown is Carlyss, but you probably won't find it on a map. Her family owned a camp located on a bayou just off the Gulf of Mexico that you could only get there by boat. The most important feature was the rope hammock hanging in the shade on a huge deck that stretched out over the water where Jana spent many hours reading books.

Jana and her brother spent thousands of hours combing the bayous in a flat-bottom aluminum boat, studying the natural habitat of many birds, nutria and alligators. She would like you to know that no animals were injured during these "studies," but they kept makers of peroxide in business.

Jana has never stumbled across a mystery or a ghost like her heroines, but she's still hopeful.

She now resides in Dallas, Texas, with the most spoiled Sheltie in the world.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 4 1/2 + stars...good mystery with a little romance, November 8, 2009

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Laura B (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mischief in Mudbug (Ghost-In-Law Mystery Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

2nd in the Mudbug (Ghost-in-law) series.

Sabine LaVeche needs to find her biological family for medical reasons. When she hires Beau Villeneuve, she wasn't expecting him to be so downright H-O-T. He is concerned that she won't get the desired results in finding her family and finds himself trying to protect her--for more than just professional reasons.

When Sabines starts hearing Helena Henry, the deceased mother-in-law of her best friend, Maryse, she gets concerned that something really bad is about to happen to her--Helena only seems to appear to people in mortal danger.

I highly recommend reading the first book in the series, Trouble in Mudbug, before this one. Although this book is a stand alone, it will help with the finer details to read the other book.

I really enjoyed this one. The mystery was a good one...the clues are subtle and played out very well. Some things are a little obvious, but it works well in the story.

I'm looking forward to the next book where more about Helena's death is revealed (and solved, I believe).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars engaging sequel, October 3, 2009

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mischief in Mudbug (Ghost-In-Law Mystery Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

After Helena the ghost makes a disturbing appearance during a client's visit, Mudbug psychic Sabine LeVeche learns from Dr. Breaux that her biopsy test affirms she suffers from acute myeloid leukemia; a type that with treatment most people go into remission especially if the person receives a bone marrow transplant from a close relative.

However, Sabine has a minor problem with the bone marrow therapy; she needs a relative, but knows of none in spite of her efforts to find kin. Private investigator Beau Villeneuve, her BFF Maryse and Helena help the stunned twenty-eight years old woman. However, their efforts are sidetracked by someone trying to kill Sabine and her attraction to Beau who feels the same way about her.

This is an engaging sequel, but the TROUBLE IN MUDBUG is that several key support characters (especially Helena) cannot stand alone without having read the previous book. Still Sabine's search for blood relatives takes a serious health turn that makes for a serious story line while her mutually shared feelings with Beau adds a naked romantic element to the recipe. The suspense subplot adds tension, but also takes a back seat to the health crisis and the attraction as Jana DeLeon cooks an interesting spin in Mudbug.

Harriet Klausner

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good sequal, April 3, 2011

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R. Laney (Fairview, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mischief in Mudbug (Ghost-in-Law Mystery/Romance Series) (Kindle Edition)

the ghost of helen is still making mischief in mudbug. Sabine was a orphan and she had searched for her family at 18 with no luck. Now she might need bone marrow transplant to treat her cancer. So she hires P.I. to help her find her family. Beau is former FBI agent with family money so takes cases to help people he is attracted to sabine. Now Sabine can here Helen and eventually can even see her. Helen cant get enough food and keeps needing more air. which they tell helen shes dead so she doesnt need air or to eat. so someone is trying to kill sabine, she dealing with Helen who is having more fun dead than alive. finding her family, dealing with cancer and falling in love. it is action pack book cant wait to read the next book.