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    Ghost At Work

    Written by Carolyn Hart

    Narrated by Ann Marie Lee

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    Bailey Ruth Raeburn has always been great at solving mysteries. Why should a little thing like her death change anything? In fact, being dead gives her more of an opportunity to be on top of events. Bailey Ruth is delighted that her unique position as a ghost makes it possible for her to lend a helping hand, sometimes seen and sometimes not. And if anybody needs a little help, it's Kathleen, the pastor's wife. There's a dead man on her porch, and once the body is discovered, the pastor is sure to become a suspect.

    Uncharitable people might call it meddling, but Bailey Ruth knows Kathleen needs her help! As a member of Heaven's Department of Good Intentions, Bailey Ruth goes back to earth to extricate Kathleen from a dire situation. If Bailey Ruth has to bend a few rules to help Kathleen save her family, Wiggins, her fussbudget supervisor, will make sure it all turns out right in the end.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 21, 2008
    ISBN9781415936771
    Author

    Carolyn Hart

    An accomplished master of mystery, Carolyn Hart is the author of twenty previous Death on Demand novels. Her books have won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. She is also the creator of the Henrie O series, featuring a retired reporter, and the Bailey Ruth series, starring an impetuous, redheaded ghost. One of the founders of Sisters in Crime, Hart lives in Oklahoma City.

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    • 3/5
      Ghost at Work (Bailey Ruth #1) by Carolyn Hart is a cute story that is worth the read but I found it too cutesy for me. I liked it and will look for more of her books to see if they are all like that or not but I like the premise and the plot but the dialogue was just off. Worth the read. I got this from the library.
    • 4/5
      If you like cozy mysteries and like friendly ghosts this is a light-hearted mystery for you. The mystery has more body than many of the cozys I’ve read, the suspects are well-fleshed with motive and opportunity The ghost is there to help and not be seen but she just needs to act and forgets what the consequences could be. An enjoyably fast read. I am already checking the library for more of this series.
    • 2/5
      This is the first in the Bailey Ruth series. It's a cozy mystery and an ok read. One for when you just have a day when you can't exert brain power.Back Cover Blurb:Bailey Ruth Raeburn has always been great at solving mysteries. Why should a little thing like her death change anything? In fact, being dead gives her more of an opportunity to be on top of events. Bailey Ruth is delighted that her unique position as a ghost makes it possible for her to lend a helping hand, sometimes seen and sometimes not. And if anybody needs a little help, it's Kathleen, the pastor's wife. There's a dead man on her porch, and once the body is discovered, the pastor is sure to become a suspect.Uncharitable people might call it meddling, but Bailey Ruth knows Kathleen needs her help! As a member of Heaven's Department of Good Intentions, Bailey Ruth goes back to earth to extricate Kathleen from a dire situation. If Bailey Ruth has to bend a few rules to help Kathleen save her family, Wiggins, her fussbudget supervisor, will make sure it all turns out right in the end.
    • 4/5
      Book Description Bailey Ruth Raeburn has always been great at solving mysteries. Why should a little thing like her death change anything? In fact, being dead gives her more of an opportunity to be on top of events. Bailey Ruth is delighted that her unique position as a ghost makes it possible for her to lend a helping hand, sometimes seen and sometimes not. And if anybody needs a little help, it's Kathleen, the pastor's wife. There's a dead man on her porch, and once the body is discovered, the pastor is sure to become a suspect. Uncharitable people might call it meddling, but Bailey Ruth knows Kathleen needs her help! As a member of Heaven's Department of Good Intentions, Bailey Ruth goes back to earth to extricate Kathleen from a dire situation. If Bailey Ruth has to bend a few rules to help Kathleen save her family, Wiggins, her fussbudget supervisor, will make sure it all turns out right in the end. My Review I enjoyed this cozy mystery. It was a fun read with great characters and a good plot!
    • 1/5
      Well, I usually don't do the DNF thing. But I read so much of this one, trying to like it, that I thought I would say why I gave up. I must say that Bailey Ruth is just annoying. She destroys evidence, ignores the rules she is supposed to follow when on earth (she's a ghost). I kept thinking that some explanation of why she was allowed to walk all over the law. But at 50% I still was following her destructive trail, and descriptions of her ghostly wardrobe. And she eats food. Really? I am really disappointed. I usually love ghost mysteries.
    • 4/5
      I just decided to look on Overdrive for a book for a challenge I am doing. This book fit the challenge and I decided to give it a go. It was a cute story.Bailey Ruth is dead and doesn't let death stop her from solving mysteries. A man is murdered and left on the porch of a church. Bailey goes back to help solve the murder. When Bailey picks up things it looks like the items are floating. This has a tendency to cause a little panic. I am glad I chose this book to read.
    • 5/5
      Bailey Ruth Raeburn has been dead for quite some time and while she is enjoying her time in Heaven, she wants to do more with her life (so to speak). She joins the Department of Good Intentions with the hope of helping someone on Earth who is in trouble. She is soon sent to her hometown of Adelaide, Oklahoma to help Kathleen Abbot, a pastor's wife who has found a dead body on her porch and is afraid her husband will be accused of murder. Soon Bailey Ruth is up to her pretty neck not only with murder but trying to master those darned Precepts that Wiggins insists she follow."Ghost at Work" is a delightful cozy mystery by Carolyn Hart. Bailey Ruth is a great creation - as impulsive, reckless, and well meaning as a ghost as she was while alive. Her interference can be a bit too much - she often acts without thinking - but it's done with good intentions so it's hard not to like her. The book is worth reading just for Hart's portrayal of Heaven and I love the way Bailey Ruth gets to pick her outfits. Hart has a lot of fun with Bailey Ruth's turning up in current times and having her be bewildered by things like cell phones and computers. All of the characters are well done especially Bailey Ruth, Wiggins, and Kathleen's daughter Bayroo. The supernatural aspects are well done and at times quite humorous - Hart seems to have had a lot of fun writing the book. The mystery aspects are well done, with plenty of suspects and the identity of the killer will come as a surprise to most readers. The motive for the murder is believable and sad."Ghost at Work" is a nicely done humorous paranormal cozy mystery and I look forward to reading more books in this series.
    • 4/5
      A nice cozy mystery - Bailey Ruth Raeburn is a fun, spunky character, and the mystery itself held together pretty well.
    • 4/5
      A charming new heroine -- and new series -- from this author. Light and entertaining and an easy read.
    • 4/5
      A pleasant cozy. Bailey Ruth Raeburn has already died and gone to heaven. After a while of almost boring wonderfulness, she enlists in the heavenly rescue squad to return to earth and help people in trouble. Her first assignment is to go back to her hometown of Adelaide Oklahoma to help her grand niece Kathleen Abbott who is afraid she or her husband, the rector at St. Mildred's episcopal, will be accused of murder. After all, there is a dead body on the back porch of the rectory.Bailey Ruth didn't have time for training in heaven before she undertook this assignment. Her continual violation of the "heavenly precepts for emissaries" lands her in hot water with her heavenly mentor Wiggins as she tries to intercept evidence, interview suspects, and find out who dunnit while keeping herself invisible. Her appetite for good home cooking keeps getting in the way, and her need to help constantly has objects flying through (or suspended in) the air as she whizzes, whisps, and zooms from spot a to spot b, all the while forgetting that while she may be invisible the bag of evidence she's just scooped up isn't. Neither can the corporeal objects melt through solid walls or doors. Her antics to overcome these difficulties are truly amusing.All in all, Hart presents us with an endearing character, a solid plot, lots of good suspects, and a fairly surprise ending. I'll be looking for another of these to see if Bailey Ruth can learn how to do this job in a more efficient manor and whether she'll be able to get off probation and become a full-fledged emissary.
    • 5/5
      Ghost at Work - Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat"He's dead!" Her voice was a whisper. "What am I going to do?" "Call the police." I clapped my fingers to my mouth. I hadn't intended to speak. "I can't." It was a moan. The moan turned into a strangled gasp. She looked wildly about. "Who's there? Where are you?" Skirting the body, she hurried to the back door, flung it open, clattered down the steps. In an instant she returned to the porch, dashed to the rectory back door, yanked it open, seeking the source of the voice.Bailey Ruth Raeburn is dead and living the the glories of Heaven, but there are times when an "emissary" from Heaven needs to be sent back to earth to help out those in trouble. Bailey Ruth has never had the honor of being returned to earth as an emissary so Wiggins, who is in charge of this Heavenly task, must teach her the rules and prepare her before letting her depart. Unfortunately, there is no time for preparation. In Bailey Ruth's own home town of Adelaide, someone has murdered Daryl Murdoch right on the steps of the rectory. It becomes Bailey Ruth's job as an emissary to protect Kathleen, who just happens to be the pastor's wife, and hopefully find the real killer.As Bailey Ruth approaches Kathleen, she knows that before she can help her she must first gain her trust without scaring her half to death. This isn't an easy task since Kathleen can hear Bailey Ruth but not see her. The solution to that is to appear but that is frowned upon in the Precepts, which are the rules an emissary must follow.After Bailey Ruth and Kathleen finally get a grip on the real situation, it's decided that the best thing to do is to move the body away from the rectory. And where would be a better place to deposit a dead body in the cemetery. But doing that will take some imagination from Bailey Ruth. She can't just snap her fingers and have the body moved, so she must find a mode of transportation and the wheel barrow seems to be perfect vehicle. As she and Kathleen wheel Murdoch's body to it's destination, they discover that the cemetery is occupied by a couple of teens who are attempting to remove the greyhound statue that watches over the Pritchard mausoleum. She accomplishes this by grabbing the crowbar away from one of the boys and flinging it out into the darkness. But, Kathleen has already dumped the body on the steps of the mausoleum where it's discovered by the two frightened teens.Ghost at Work is the first book written by Carolyn Hart in the Bailey Ruth series. In Ghost at Work, Bailey Ruth is an emissary in training and on probation. Following her antics as she tries to follow the rules of not appearing, speaking, nor scaring the living half to death unless completely necessary, I've found Ghost at Work to be humorous and creative. Hart's characters are not only believable but you find yourself completely wrapped up in them, not wanting the book to end. And fortunately, Bailey Ruth is carried forward in Hart's second book in the series titled Merry, Merry Ghost. I've had the enjoyment of reading both of these light hearted books and can't wait for the next.I've read many series books which spotlight the same character and have found that after a while, the character becomes predictable and over years "aged." Bailey Ruth is one character that I feel that can never happen to. After all, she is a "ghost."Harper Collins Publishers2008290 PagesISBN 978-0-06-087436-0
    • 4/5
      This is the first in Carolyn Hart's Bailey Ruth series, about a woman who has been in heaven for several years, and has volunteered to help those on Earth. She is sent to help her great niece who is coping with a body on her back porch. Kathleen is the wife of a pastor in the Arkansas town Bailey Ruth lived in all her life. Given that it is a corny premise,the execution of the book is quite good, as I expect from Hart, who is an experienced author. Hart has two other mystery series, the Death on Demand series about a bookseller on a South Carolina island, which is also a cosy series. The other series is the Henry O. series about an older widowed journalist. That's my favorite of Hart's series. The first Bailey Ruth is a lot of fun, and I will read the others.
    • 2/5
      This murder mystery has some things going for it: a large number of suspects, great pacing, well-placed summations of “what we know so far. It is a good set up for an ongoing series.But I found it far too light for my taste. It’s all plot and gimmick, with not enough character development, subplot, or exploration of issues/themes. I’ve had similar reactions to popular mystery titles by Lillian Jackson Braun, Rita Mae Brown, and Sue Grafton. Perhaps fans of those authors would also enjoy this new series.I really disliked the main character, Bailey Ruth. She reminded me of Angela Lansbury, and I never found that TV series appealing.
    • 3/5
      Ghost/angel returns to earth to help solve a crime. Clever.
    • 5/5
      Ghost at Work by Carolyn Hart is the delightful first installment of a new series by the author of the Death on Demand series and the Henrie O series. Bailey Ruth Raeburn has been in heaven for an unknown period of time, along with her husband, Bernie Mac, after a tragic boating accident. At the opening of the story, Bailey Ruth goes to the Department of Good Intentions where she meets Wiggins, the supervisor in charge of sending emissaries to earth to help those humans who find themselves in trouble. Bailey Ruth is sent back to Adelaide Oklahoma where she used to live to help the wife of a local pastor who has found a dead body on her back porch, something which is sure to cause trouble and suspicion for her spouse.What follows is a fun cozy mystery using lots of charm and wit, with Bailey Ruth seeking to find answers to who killed Daryl Murdock, a local businessman with any number of enemies. The story is told with plenty of laughs as Bailey Ruth adjusts to the world she left behind. Cell phones and computers were not part of her world when she was alive, so she has much to learn. Bailey Ruth has trouble following the Precepts, those rules given to emissaries sent to earth to help humans in trouble. Her supervisor Wiggins is a bit of a stickler for following the Precepts, causing him to have to make several appearances to help Bailey Ruth keep on track. I enjoyed this witty story, a well written mystery. I found Bailey Ruth’s ability to be here, there and everywhere, unseen, an interesting plot device. This story had good character development and clever plot twists. I would highly recommend this book to those who enjoy cozy mysteries.
    • 5/5
      Bailey Ruth Raeburn is a ghost with a mission for the Department of Good Intentions. She returns to earth to help the rector's wife, Kathleen Abbott, when she finds a dead man on her back porch. Kathleen wants to protect the good name of her husband, the pastor (and herself). Daryl Murdoch is the victim and lots of people have good reasons to want him dead. Bailey Ruth helps her by moving the body and continues investigating to find the real killer. This book was an absolute joy to read. The characters are endearing, the plot is well developed, and the mystery was not a given. This is a hilarious cozy mystery with lots of action and suspects. I can't wait for the next one!
    • 5/5
      Ghost at Work by Carolyn HartMeet Bailey Ruth Raeburn, a ghost who hopes to have a flair for solving mysteries. While in Heaven, she is asked by the Department of Good Intentions to go back to her earthly roots in Oklahoma and lend a helping hand to someone in “dire straits”. And boy does Kathleen Abbott need Bailey’s help. Kathleen is the wife of the rector of the local Episcopalian church in the town in which Bailey Ruth grew up. And Kathleen has just discovered a dead body on her back porch! (62)I love the fact that Ms Hart has made her ghostly main character sassy and a bit headstrong. As a paranormal book lover, I truly appreciate the fact that Ms Hart doesn’t make all the ’ghostly’ happenings easy to explain. I’m very tired by all the books that make one suspend disbelief to the nth degree. This was very refreshing and cleverly written.This cozy has some red herrings and enough very plausible suspects, to keep the most diehard mystery lover guessing right up until the very last chapters. Very well written and believable characters, the plot progression is tight and strong, given the short timeline and an exciting conclusion to this first in a new series of books.So Ms Hart…just exactly when do we get the next book??? I want to make sure I have the date circled in red on my calendar!*Grin*
    • 5/5
      While heaven is ,well, heavenly, Bailey Ruth Raeburn, late of Adelaide, OK, makes it known to Wiggins, head of the Department of Good Intentions, that she wants to help someone on earth in “dire straits”. Wiggins tells her she may do so, although due to her rash, impulsive and “spirited” nature, she will be on probation and she must remember all the precepts of being a ghost among the living. With a copy of the rules firmly in hand, she is immediately dispatched right back to Adelaide to find herself on the back porch of the Episcopal Church rectory just as Kathleen, the pastor’s wife, is discovering a dead body. The victim, one Daryl Murdoch ,is not quite the upstanding citizen and dedicated church member he appears to be. It seems there are quite a few people who would rather have Daryl dead than alive. Bailey Ruth now has the ability to appear when the need arises or to be invisible when she wants , a useful skill in her job to find the real murderer and absolve the pastor and his wife of any accusations because as it turns out, they too might have had a motive. As Bailey Ruth investigates the crime, the reader will laugh out loud at all of her antics while she learns to function as a ghost with a mission. Being invisible is great for moving from place to place quickly and being one step ahead of the investigation. She begins to narrow down the suspects one by one and at the Halloween Spook Bash held at the church hall, the suspense builds when the lights go out and someone goes missing. It becomes evident to her, but certainly not to the reader, who the real culprit is. Along with a few pop-ins by Wiggins along the way, Bailey Ruth identifies the murderer and ties it all up nicely just before the rescue express sweeps into Adelaide and takes her heaven bound once again.Hart writes a classic cozy with all the traditional elements of the genre. What she adds is her own exceptional brand of wit and humor along with a fabulous cast of well fleshed out characters. As usual, Hart has such a wonderful way with descriptions, the reader feels they are right there on the scene. The plot is well developed with plenty of suspects, all with motives to commit the crime. This is a truly enjoyable new series with non-stop fun . If you are a mystery fan, this is definitely one not to be missed ! Highly recommended.