Gossip To Kill For — Gillian Larkin

A short murder mystery with ghosts.

Derek Quill is an elderly gent who can see the ghosts of murdered people. With the help of his ghostly friend, Pearl, he finds out who killed them.

Derek meets the ghost of Gabby Johnson, a 22-year-old who worked at a local hairdresser's. Gabby loved a bot of gossip and knew many secrets. Derek and Pearl discover that Gabby died because she knew a secret about someone connected with the hairdresser's.