Grave Inconvenience

For professional organizer Marla Mason, a midlife crisis was supposed to involve a convertible, not a cursed gargoyle with an attitude problem.But when her pocket-sized, bureaucratic sidekick, Barnaby, is served a parking ticket by a headless ghost in the quirky, off-the-map town of Pendle-Stitch, Marla's quiet life of decanting lentils is officially over.Things go from bizarre to dire when the ghost-officer's head is stolen, and Barnaby is framed for the crime.The sentence: permanent petrification in seventy-two hours.Armed with her unique brand of "e;Clutter-Mancy"e;—a psychic connection to misplaced objects—and menopausal hot flashes that radiate a magical "e;Truth Heat,"e; Marla must follow a trail of supernatural paperwork and goblin-marked bowling pins to clear his name. Her investigation leads her deep into a secret, subterranean goblin bowling alley, where a high-stakes tournament is underway and the grand prize is the missing head.With less than three days before her only friend becomes a permanent lawn ornament, Marla must trade her label maker for a cursed bowling ball and enter the most dangerous game in town.But as she gets closer to the truth, she uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to unravel her weird and wonderful new home at the seams.Can a woman whose greatest superpower is finding lost socks win a game where the cheaters have magic and the rulebook is written in grease?