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Here you’ll find information about me and the Haunted Guesthouse Mystery series from Berkley Prime Crime! You can follow me on Twitter here, or be my friend on Facebook. And if you’re interested in ghosts, the Jersey Shore, and just enjoying a funny, spooky, exciting mystery novel, you’re in the right place! Look around; spend some time.

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The Countdown Has Begun!

It’s less than three weeks until OLD HAUNTS, the third Haunted Guesthouse Mystery, arrives at your bookstore (or mail box, or e-reader)! Expect CONTEST NEWS coming soon, and the first chapter is now available for you to read (click “NOVELS”, above). Leave a comment at my blog with any suggestions for OLD HAUNTS promotions or your own thoughts on the book!

Contest

New Contest! The box of books has arrived, the blog tour is taking shape, the tree is trimmed (wait… no), and the launch of OLD HAUNTS, the third Haunted Guesthouse mystery, is less than three weeks away, so it’s time for a contest! Get ready, because this one is going to be fun!

It’s also really easy: Just send an email to: ejcopperman [AT] gmail [DOT] com naming your favorite character in the Haunted Guesthouse series. (If you haven’t read any of the books, just say: THE HOUSE.) Make sure we have your snail mail address. That’s it.
First prize: The only official OLD HAUNTS coffee travel mug. This 16-oz. mug bears the image of the OLD HAUNTS cover, and, you know, will hold coffee (or any other beverage) in it, too. What’s not to like?
Next prize (2 to be awarded): An OLD HAUNTS t-shirt! This shirt (size L) bears the image of the OLD HAUNTS cover and will hold, um, you in it, as well. Stylish and comfortable, it’s the shirt to be wearing while reading OLD HAUNTS (or doing pretty much anything else you might like to do) this winter/spring.
Winners to be determined by a completely random selection of the email address out of a hat (probably an OLD HAUNTS hat, which bears… never mind) on Wednesday, February 29–that’s right, Leap Day! (Why not?)
Enter as many times as you like, as long as it’s once. Duplicate entries will be shredded and made into birdcage lining as soon as I get a bird. No purchase is required, or even possible.
Tell your friends; tell your enemies; tell total strangers–OLD HAUNTS is on its way!

An Uninvited Ghost is NOW AVAILABLE!

The second Haunted Guesthouse mystery, An Uninvited Ghost, brings back all your favorite characters and continues the story of Alison Kerby, who discovered two spirits “living” in the Jersey Shore house she was renovating to serve as a guesthouse. Months after the incidents in Night of the Living Deed, Alison’s house is now receiving its first set of guests, and she is just a little nervous about pleasing them. But there’s something else on the agenda—Paul Harrison, the murdered private investigator who shares the house with Alison, her now ten-year-old daughter Melissa, and the ghost of Maxie Malone, has been drumming up business—detective business. The client is another ghost, Scott McFarlane, who thinks he might have been tricked into killing a little old lady and is distraught over the incident. He wants Alison and Paul to find out what really happened—but that could lead to the real killer getting wind of the investigation. And Alison’s not interested in aggravating another murderer. And with a reality TV crew about to invade the guesthouse for a shoot, things are going to get very hectic, very fast. Read an excerpt!

It’s official! Publishers Lunch reports that the 4th and 5th books in the Haunted Guesthouse series are under contract to Berkley Publishing! Now I just have to write them! (Book #3, OLD HAUNTS, will be out in February 2012.)

Night of the Living Deed is available right now from your favorite bookseller, and on Kindle!

“Funny, charming, and thoroughly enjoyable. I look forward to the next installment.”
—Gloria Feit, I Love a Mystery

“Fans of Charlaine Harris and Sarah Graves will relish this original, laugh-laden paranormal mystery featuring reluctant ghost whisperer Alison Kerby, a Topper for the 21st century. Meticulously crafted, Night of the Living Deed is a sparkling first entry in a promising new series.”
—Julia Spencer-Fleming, Anthony and Agatha Award winning author of One Was A Soldier

 

Bookmark Offer

If you’d like a Night of the Living Deed bookmark signed by E.J. Copperman, just send your email and snail mail addresses to: ejcopperman (at) gmail (dot) com, and one will be on its way! While supplies last (meaning, until I run out of stamps)!