The Mystery of Hurtleberry House (The Reboot Files #1)

By C.L. Ragsdale

Most people would be excited to be hosting their own TV show. However, most people do not work for Reboot, a TV station not known for the quality of its programming. Such is the fate of Irene Waters, a once promising Christian reporter struggling to recover from a counterfeit scandal that ruined her career and left her questioning her trust in God.
Her employment options being limited, she is assigned to a cheesy paranormal investigation show called “Irene's Eerie Adventures”. Along with her cameraman, the gung-ho Troy Stenson, they are dispatched to a rumored haunted house called Hurtleberry House. At first glance their subject does not look promising even for the less than ambitious goal of “Good Television”. The house is undergoing major renovations making filming itself a challenge. Even worse, the residents are cliche and the ghost is camera shy.
Fortunately for the Reboot team, all is not as it first appears as circumstances soon take a turn for the weird if not the supernatural. For Irene soon discovers that everything they thought they knew about the house and its ghost has been brought into question with the apparent goal of tricking a low budget TV show into coming out to film. But why and who is behind it? The flamboyant owner who appears to be a true believer in the family ghost? Her sensible sister with the grating personality who seems determined to protect her sibling? The helpful but cranky elderly caretaker who could have ulterior motives? Or the handsome, but oddly redundant handyman who appears to have few skills and no apparent part in the renovations?
Irene will have to draw upon her until now unknown deductive skills and renewed faith in God to solve the real mystery of Hurtleberry House. A goal somewhat hampered by her efforts to curtail, with varying degrees of success, the enthusiasm of her cameraman to exploit the sensational. Whether it actually exists or not.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C.L. Ragsdale
• Release date: Jun 10, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301456505

C.L. Ragsdale

Mystery writer C.L. Ragsdale is the author of The Reboot Files a Christian Cozy Mystery Series, and a superhero story called Chasing Lady Midnight. A California native, she loves to "surf" the web to research plot details for her fun, quirky stories. She has a degree in Theatre Arts which greatly influenced her writing style. Working in various fields as a secretary has allowed her to both master her writing skills and acquire valuable technical knowledge which she uses liberally in her plots. Although that is where she got her idea for The Secretary, she is not an evil mastermind. Although some of her former employers might disagree. These days she contents herself with knitting while contemplating her next diabolical plot. Story plot that is.