A Ghost of a Chance

A Viola Valentine Mystery, Book 1

By: Cherie Claire

Narrated by: Christee Gabour Atwood

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's Summary

They say there are blessings from Hurricane Katrina. For Viola Valentine of New Orleans, it was losing her dead-end job and leaving behind a loveless marriage and an overbearing family. 

But the storm also blew open a psychic door. Now, she sees ghosts who have died by water. 

As she enters her new career as travel writer, solving mysteries that appear with apparitions everywhere she goes, the one person she hopes to speak to - her daughter who died of leukemia years before - continues to elude her. 

Or does she?

Audiobook details:

• Contemporary paranormal mystery 
• Audiobook one of the Viola Valentine Mystery series
• R-rated content: light sexuality
• Set in Louisiana and the Deep South

Other works by Cherie Claire:

Viola Valentine Mystery Series:

• A Ghost of a Chance
• Ghost Town
• Trace of a Ghost

The Cajun Series:

• Emilie
• Rose
• Gabrielle
• Delphine
• A Cajun Dream
• The Letter
• The Cajun Embassy
• Ticket to Paradise
• Damn Yankees
• Gone Pecan

This project is supported in part by ArtSpark, an individual artist stipend supported by the Lafayette Economic Development Authority and administered by the Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana.

©2017 Chere Dastugue Coen (P)2018 Chere Dastugue Coen

Not for me

The characters were flat. I couldn't get into the story. The narrator didn't help. She read like she was in a race to finish.

An Entertaining and Emotional Story!

I was very entertained by this story. For much of it, the main character seemed so sassy and spitfire and in control, though she has built a wall so others can’t get close. Other times her spirit is broken and she loses control. It was great that the narrator could voice everything this character felt, as well as the supporting cast. This story made me laugh out loud but also feel pretty sad. I think the author and narrator did a great job. I hope there will be another audiobook that picks up where this left off.

Cozy Goes Edgy

This isn't your average cozy mystery by a longshot. Cherie Claire has given us a heroine with a heartbreaking backstory, who still plows forward through life like a woman on a mission to make it all mean something. The narrator has an unusual voice but the saving grace is this: Her Viola speaks like a real New Orleanian. No faux Cajun or faux southern speak. And for all her insecurities, Viola takes no grief from fools.