Three-Zee Series

Besides having a really bizarre nickname, Three-Zee Zook can see and talk to ghosts. What’s bothering her about her latest sighting is that she’s also seen his corpse lying in the woods, except it disappears and she can find no evidence of it ever having been there. With the ghost hanging around the neighboring empty Amish farmhouse she decides to investigate his murder, assuming it was murder, because she has no intention of sharing her ability with the local police.

Zelanie Zephora Zook (Three-Zee to her friends) and her best friend, Bambi Bamberger, visit Ocean City, New Jersey for a week of sun and surf. Instead, they encounter the ghost of a beautiful surfer who has no idea where, why, or how she died, except that it’s obvious the knife wound in her chest was no accident. Mysterious shenanigans regarding a crate being unloaded from a small boat at night into a truck guarded by a man with a gun further complicate their vacation. Being trapped on top of a tall Ferris wheel during a severe thunderstorm followed by being left to die in the marshes turns this into the week from Hell for Three-Zee and Bambi until with the help of a new friend they finally figure out all the answers.

Spring is springing in the Pocono Mountains of eastern Pennsylvania, and Three-Zee Zook (Zelanie Zephora Zook, to be exact) and her best friend, Bambi Bamberger, are enjoying the emerging wildflowers and budding branches as they begin their new jobs at the luxurious Mountain Woods resort. That is, they’re enjoying it until Three-Zee stumbles upon the ghost and dead body of a handsome young man, a budding Hollywood star and stepson of the resort’s manager. Things become more complicated when a grumpy old man who owns a neighboring property bordering the resort’s private lake decides to use Three-Zee, Bambi, and Three-Zee’s mother and aunt as targets for his double-barrel shotgun. Three-Zee barely escapes death when a lightning strike misses her by feet and then when a shelf-load of kitchen utensils falls on her inside a darkened storeroom, except that nothing about either incident is exactly as it seems. Add to that a head chef with the personality of a pit bull with hemorrhoids and a couple of equally pleasant guests, and Three-Zee and Bambi are left wondering why they ever took this idyllic job.

It's a dilemma. Three-Zee Zook’s best friend, Bambi Bamberger, is having an affair with a ghost. A young maid at the luxurious Mountain Woods resort where both Three-Zee and Bambi work has gone missing, and the girls encounter both her swimsuit-clad body and her ghost. The cottage where Three-Zee and Bambi live is trashed and the girls must find alternate accommodations. Is the culprit the handsome young lifeguard, who offers Three-Zee a temporary place to live, or is it a former nemesis come out of hiding to torment them? Then there’s the mysterious cottage in the woods. Is solving these mysteries worth the mortal peril in which the girls find themselves?

What could be more fun than a destination wedding, especially on scenic Cape Cod? Three-Zee Zook and her best friend, Bambi Bamberger, along with other friends and relatives visit the cape for the wedding of Three-Zee’s aunt, looking forward to a week in the sun and surf, and wind up trying to solve the murder of an elderly couple after their ghosts show up near an iconic lighthouse. Complicating the issue even more is the mysterious appearance of the ghosts of passengers from a shipwreck, especially because the shipwreck occurred in November of 1898. Has Three-Zee finally found love in the person of a Chatham policeman? Are they doomed to drown during a ferocious hurricane? Does Bambi’s relationship with her ghost boyfriend continue, much to Three-Zee’s chagrin? Are modern-day smugglers using a forgotten tunnel to transport stolen goods? With all the chaos around them, do Aunt Gladys and her fiancé ever tie the knot? Finally, who killed the elderly couple and why?

Explore a corn maze as autumn begins. It’s fun; it’s family friendly; and, oops, it’s a great place to murder somebody and get away before anybody discovers the body. Three-Zee Zook and her best friend, Bambi Bamberger, learn this the hard way when they’re the ones who find the body at a genuine dead end. Then it’s home to Mountain Woods Resort where there are no local cornfields but lots of woods, just the place to set up a Haunted Woods activity prior to Halloween. Oops again, another dead body. As usual, none of their ghosts are any help whatsoever. Include a bunch of high school kids working as ghouls to enhance the Haunted Woods experience, and you have a chaotic situation not helped in the least by a couple of questionable resort guests and the near demise of one of the kids. Three-Zee and Bambi wind up spending a lot of time trying to figure out who’s doing what to whom and why, eventually bringing everything to a rather messy conclusion.

Tragedy strikes a mother and her little boy when their car rolls down a steep embankment and catches fire while upside down in a creek. Meanwhile, their carjacker disappears into the Pocono Mountains forest adjacent to the Mountain Woods Resort. Three-Zee Zook discovers the bodies and, with her best friend, Bambi Bamberger, goes searching for the carjacker after the ghosts of the woman and her son show up almost on their doorstep. Things get complicated when the woman’s mob-connected husband and father arrive at the resort and immediately lock horns with one of the resort owners, a clone of Ebenezer Scrooge. Then there’s the new girl in town, wrangler for the resort’s new stable and small herd of riding horses. Both Three-Zee and Bambi can ride, but Three-Zee discovers that being dragged by a horse with her foot caught in a stirrup and her head bouncing along the ground can have some serious repercussions.